John F. Kennedy on inspiration

Ask not what your country can do for you⁠—ask what you can do for your country.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 4

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894

• Fear

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Pablo Picasso1881–1973

• Work