"I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back."

“Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.”

“From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome”

“Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.”

“But for all those who don't want the Queen there are easily as many who don't want a President and even more who certainly would not want one if they knew who it would be. As you can readily see, I have given more thought to this subject than most and I have reached my own conclusion. God save the Queen.”

“High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.”

“When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.”

Source : Eknath Easwaran (1991). “Meditation: A Simple Eight-point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life”, p.91, Nilgiri Press

“your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.”

“A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.”

Source : "Failure and Rescue" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2012.