Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Matthew Arnold

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Jon Meacham

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Dennis Rodman

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

Joey Lauren Adams

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Thou art a manGod is no moreThy own humanityLearn to adore

William Blake

It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.

Steve Backley

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

Ken Hensley

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

George Orwell

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Jodi Picoult