"She soars on her own wings...." - Quote by Socrates

“Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

“The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.”

“Contentment is natural wealth.”

“I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.”

“There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”

“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”

“I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.”

“You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.”

“There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.”