Thirty-five years earlier, before the relapse of my dystrophy, I couldn't have done what I've done. I was a businesswoman, I had a shop, I was in a marriage, and I was a conformist. I probably had to go through all this to come out at the other end, to be sort of hit on the head and to realize that my former life wasn't all that good and that it was time to try something else. --Hanni Sager (in Hanni's Toy Workshops in Mexico)

Man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps in a truer sense its owner, than the listless voluptuary who enjoys its fruits. --Humbolt (in Untitled)

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. --Chinese proverb (in The College Course That's Changing Lives)

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. --Norman Cousins (in Japan's Unlikely Hero)

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. --Norman Cousins (in A Yuletide Gift of Kindness)

He who puts an end to former crimes
By taking up the way of peace,
Illuminates the world
Like the moon freed from a veil of clouds. --Buddha (in Path to Freedom: A Former Prison Monk's Amazing Work)

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter --Norman Cousins (in Housecalls for the Homebound)

He who puts an end to former crimes, by taking up the way of peace, illuminates the world like the moon freed from a veil of clouds. --Buddha (in Seeking Better Ways of Thinking & Being)