There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

-- Leonard Cohen

The secret is there are no secrets - John Bogle

Speak only if it improves upon the silence

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Stop chasing wrong things in life so that the right things can get a chance to chase after you

- Seen on a board outside a church

Never pray for lesser burdens
Pray for stronger backs

It is impossible for a man to learn something which he thinks he already knows

-- Epictetus

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Success introduces you to the world.
Failure introduces the world to you.

(Seen on a board outside a church)

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

When you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

--- Theodore Roosevelt

Faith is like WiFi. It is invisible but can connect you to what you need.

--- Displayed on a board outside a church

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.

--Prince Gautama Siddharta

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

-- Azim Premji

If you want to go fast, go alone
If you want to go far, go together

- An African Proverb

Life is like a camera.
Capture good things.
Develop the negatives.
Give it another shot.

- Seen on a board outside a church

Not that they (books) come alive in him (the collector), it is he who lives in them.

- Walter Benjamin

Not only books but also copies of books have their fates

- Walter Benjamin

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wise people so full of doubts

-- Bertrand Russell

They drew a circle that shut me out,
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win,
We drew a circle that took them in!
-- Edwin Markham