"Every time you practice or attempt something, you are succeeding at getting better  -- not failing at being perfect."        -Cary E. Krix

"When times get tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there."

 Barbara Johnson-author

"You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand."

-words Woodrow Wilson engraved over the entrance to New Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia