Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

Allen Ginsberg

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

William James

My eyes went straight to a soft woman who sat facing the wrong way at the bar top. Soft, because I knew if I were to touch her skin, it would feel like a peach, the kind of woman you could almost smell from inside the building. Instead of facing Andy, she had her back to him, keeping an eye on the door. That must be her. Her hair was exquisite. She was really the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. A golden crown of braids and curls complimented her sun-kissed skin. Her dress draped perfectly over her body, and in that moment, I needed her more than I needed air.

Chelsie Shakespeare

The venerable teachers, philosophers

Allan Lokos

The best way to compete is to get defeat.

Santosh Kalwar

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

Peter Bogdanovich

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Charles A. Garfield