“ PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration. Albert Einstein
“ Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace. Shannon L. Alder
“ When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spear… Thomas L. Friedman
“ See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that. Debasish Mridha
“ Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly a… Tony Schwartz
“ Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of… Ali Smith
“ We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and fal… John F. Kennedy
“ I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation. Robert A. Heinlein
“ Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers. Caitlin Keiper
“ Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open Jay Woodman
