Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
                – Thomas à Kempis

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
                – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
                – Jim Rohn

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
                – Mignon McLaughlin

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
                – Max Lerner

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
                – Brecht

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
                – G.C. Lichtenberg