Thought of the Moment

Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment.

Proactive people are driven by values — carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. Read more

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

- Albert Schweitzer Read more

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

— Theodore Roosevelt Read more

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem.

Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

- Life of Pi Read more

If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

- Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea Read more

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

- Malcolm Gladwell Read more

Time and tide wait for no man.

- Geoffrey Chaucer Read more

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

- Stephen Covey Read more

The road is better than the end.

- Cervantes Read more

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle Read more