Without art there is no intellectual existence. – Ruskin

We are what we think. All that we are arises within our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world. – Buddha

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.  – Charles H. Cooley

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. – Rumi

For to be aware of reality, of the living present, is to discover that at each moment the experience is all. – Alan Watts

There, in peace and serenity, we can give our full attention to the beauty of sunlight on the water, clouds on the mountains, birds on the wing. We then come to realize that the earth and all its inhabitants are one community, worth protecting. – Journey to Freedom

So everyone ought to have the same purpose: to identify the interest of each with the interest of all. Once men grab for themselves, human society will completely collapse. – Cicero

Taking control of your own life is the first step on the road to freedom. When you are free from financial dependence, free from emotional insecurity, free from the constraints of religion and tradition, free from alcohol and drug addiction; when you are an informed, unafraid, respectful and accountable citizen; when you exemplify love, tolerance, honesty, humility, vision, commitment and vigilance – then you will be free. And when there are millions more like you we will achieve a free society. – Journey to Freedom

Your dead cease to love you and the land of their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb and wander way beyond the stars. They are soon forgotten and never return. Our dead never forget the beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays, and ever yearn in tender, fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the Happy Hunting Ground to visit, guide, console and comfort them. – Chief Seattle

Wars against nations are fought to change maps; Wars against poverty are fought to map change. – Muhammed Ali

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are, in fact, plans to protect man. – Stewart Udall

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. – R.W. Emerson

If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it. – Kofi Annan

The ultimate test of a moral Society is the kind of world it leaves its children. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. – Thomas Jefferson

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. – Dalai Lama

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Wm. Faulkner

Our minds are in motion…we are unfinished with ourselves but uncertain of our tasks. – Rock Morris

There is nothing so stable as change. – Bob Dylan

The time to hesitate is through. – Jim Morrison

The moment you get clarity the universe conspires to make it happen. – Goethe