" "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." "

— William Butler Yeats

" To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. "

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

" If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone? "

— Jodi Picoult

" The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. "

— Clarice Lispector

" Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. "

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "

— Francis Bacon