The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

You don't kill your way to peace.

Imran Khan

Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Richard Bandler

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

W. H. Auden

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

Sarah Silverman

Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?

Joan Manley

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

E. M. Cioran

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

John Barrymore

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

Arne Duncan

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

E. B. White

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.

Elbert Hubbard