The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Francis H. Bradley

Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

Harold Brodkey

Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself

Thomas Carlyle

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Renee Fleming

You can not do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do.

Anon.

Weave the circle, tightly sewn,Let nothing evil or unknownEnter within. Stay withoutOn pain of death, we cast you out.

Yasmine Galenorn

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

William Osler

The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

Christopher McDougall

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Paul Keating

If I know anything, I know scary. And giving this president and this out-of-control Congress two more years to screw up our future is downright terrifying. Thankfully, this national nightmare is one we can end.

Stephen King

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith