"Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?"

“I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.”

“I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.”

“My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad happens to you. Everybody loves you when something bad happens to you. Then you're easy to love.”

“Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.”

“I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.210

“Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.”

Source : "Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning". Book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (p. 57), 2004.

“One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.”

Source : Speech by J.K. Rowling at Harvard University, news.harvard.edu. June 05, 2008.

“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.”