A Touch Of Wisdom

Monday, November 2, 2026

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”

― Abraham Joshua Heschel, (1907 - 1972) (Rabbi, Professor, Civil Rights Activist, Who Escaped The Holocaust)

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

Horace Mann (1796 - 1859) (American Educator, Social Reformer, and Pioneer of Public Education)

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) (American Civil Rights Leader, Baptist Minister, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

William James (1842 - 1910) (American Philosopher, Psychologist, and Pioneer of Modern Psychology)

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

Robert Collier (1885 - 1950) (American Author and Pioneer of Self-Improvement Literature)

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) (American Novelist, Essayist, Playwright, and Civil Rights Advocate)

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) (Scottish Novelist, Poet, Essayist, and Travel Writer)