“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ― W.B. Yeats     “I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” ― W.B. Yeats     “For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.” ― W.B. Yeats   “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ― William Butler Yeats     “Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you…

“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.” ― William Hazlitt   “The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.” ― William Hazlitt   “He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.” ― William Hazlitt   “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.” ― William Hazlitt   “Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.” [The Sick Chamber…

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy     “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of…