"On Misfortune"

 "Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I’ll tell you why. From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes." -- Justice John Roberts

"On Stupidity"

  "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice." -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Letters and papers From Prison)

Conflict/Peace

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means." -- Ronald Reagan 

Contentment

 "Give a man everything he wants and at that moment, everything will not be everything." -- Immanuel Kant

Truth stages

 "Truth passes through three stages.  First, it is ridiculed.  Second, it is violently opposed.  Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer

Doors of Perception

 "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." -- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Don't try to be subtle or clever

 "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever.  Use a pile driver.  Hit it once.  Then come back and hit it again." -- Winston Churchill

Past / Future

 "If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past." - Dan B. Allender

Community

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere." - Seneca 

Not Cease from Exploration

 "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot