We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Bible

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

RuPaul

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

E. J. Klemme

The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.

Heather Wilson

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Paul Valery

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

E. M. Forster

Nothing except possibly love and death are of importance

Gerald Durrell

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

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The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

John Piper