The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

Thomas Jefferson

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

Meister Eckhart, Ordinary Graces

I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.

Emile Zola

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Elizabeth Edwards

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

Abu Bakr

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Peter Drucker

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

David Sedaris

The heart was made to be broken

Oscar Wilde

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

Henry Miller

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy

See the ball; hit the ball.

Pete Rose