APPENDIX

When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. —Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 
Your deeds are your monuments. —inscription on an Egyptian tomb
【This precept means that we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they’ve died. They’re like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made out of stone, they’re made out of the memories people have of you. That’s why your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of with stone.】
Have no friends not equal to yourself. —Confucius 
Audentes fortuna iuvat. (Fortune favors the bold.) —Virgil 
No man is an island, entire of itself. —John Donne 
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber 
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. —Blaise Pascal 
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. —Sappho
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can. —John Wesley’s Rule 
Just follow the day and reach for the sun! —The Polyphonic Spree, “Light and Day” 
POSTCARD PRECEPTS 
CHARLOTTE CODY’S PRECEPT 
It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.
REID KINGSLEY’S PRECEPT 
Save the oceans, save the world! —Me!
TRISTAN FIEDLEHOLTZEN’S PRECEPT 
If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they’re about to announce the lottery numbers! —Homer Simpson 
SAVANNA WITTENBERG’S PRECEPT 
Flowers are great, but love is better. —Justin Bieber 
HENRY JOPLIN’S PRECEPT 
Don’t be friends with jerks. —Henry Joplin 
MAYA MARKOWITZ’S PRECEPT 
All you need is love. —The Beatles 
AMOS CONTI’S PRECEPT 
Don’t try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that’s uncool. —Amos Conti 
XIMENA CHIN’S PRECEPT
To thine own self be true. —Hamlet, Shakespeare 
JULIAN ALBANS’S PRECEPT 
Sometimes it’s good to start over. —Julian Albans 
SUMMER DAWSON’S PRECEPT 
If you can get through middle school without hurting anyone’s feelings, that’s really cool beans. —Summer Dawson 
JACK WILL’S PRECEPT 
Keep calm and carry on! —some saying from World War II 
AUGUST PULLMAN’S PRECEPT 
Everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their life because we all overcometh the world. —Auggie