John Adams on the natural progression of society

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." - John Adams

Happiness

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony" -- Mahatma Gandhi

Mentoring of our children ....

"Prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child." –Native American Proverb

Practice

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching" - Mahatma Gandhi

Dreamers of the Day

"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."  -- T.E. Lawrence AKA Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935)

Be Yourself

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." -- e.e. cummings

Accountability

"In God we trust; all others must bring data." - W. Edwards Deming