We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been travelling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less travelled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. 

Rachel Carson

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.