"Tell me a fact, and I'll learn.  Tell me the truth, and I'll believe.  But 
tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever."
Indian proverb

"Tell me, I'll forget.  Show me, I'll remember.  Involve me, I'll 
understand."      Chinese proverb.

"The eyes do not see what the heart does not feel."  Chinese proverb

"A historian has many duties. Allow me to remind you of two which are 
important. The first is not to slander; the second is not to bore." 
Voltaire

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the 
sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their 
country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man 
and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this 
consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the 
triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness 
only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper 
price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an 
article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."   Thomas Paine