"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." - Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859

"It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile." - Gary Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'

"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." - Harriet Martineau

"Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love." - David McCullough

"Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible." - Dr. Karl Menninger

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." - Thomas Merton, 'No Man Is an Island'

"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." - Thomas Merton

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night.  I miss you like hell." - Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!" - Henry Miller

"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying." - Michel de Montaigne

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

"It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way." - John Lord Morley

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." - John Lord Morley