To make memories, step out of your comfort zone

-John Sexton, President, NYU

in a conversation with Bill Moyers

Reference to the program

Difference between success and failure may just be enthusiasm

As much as I enjoy ice climbing it's one of those activities that I often wish were over while I'm actually doing it

Grace, wisdom and beauty you may enjoy, but beware pride, which alone can tarnish all the rest

- A latin inscription at "Crac des Chevaliers" of Western Syria

- Philip K Howard

Most things happen through the usual process of trial and error by which we feel our way to success

- Michael Polanyi

We all declare for liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

- Abraham Lincoln

within which men should be inviolable.

- Isaiah Berlin

People do not object to artists deserving success - only to their getting it

- Max Harrison

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. ...Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool i've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."

- 2005, Steve Jobs

Excerpt..

I give back to the earth what the earth gave
All to the furrow, nothing to the grave.

Bern Williams

In darkest shades if she appear, 
My dawning is begun; 
She is my soul's bright morning star, 
And she my rising sun. 

George Eliot

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God

Aeschylus

Blaise Pascal

Not sure who said it or what the origin is