Today's quote of the day is from George Washington Carver. He was an American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. Carver's reputation is based on the research that he did with the rotation of crops with soybeans, peanuts, and sweet potatoes. He wanted poor farmers and families to grow and alternate crops as a source for their own food and to improve their quality of life. On his grave was written, "He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world."

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. — George Washington Carver"

Today's quote of the day is from the prolific American writer, historian and philosopher Will Durant (1885-1981). Durant was a Pulitzer  Prize winner for non-fiction and was best known writing The Story Of Civilization.

• "Cultivate your garden... Do not depend upon teachers to educate you ... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony... In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. ‘Happiness,’ said Chamfort, ‘is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere."
  ~~ Will Durant

"With our thoughts we make the world. — Buddha"

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. — Frederick II, the Great"