The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

John Locke

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Antisthenes

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Pogo

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, 
 tell it not to a friend.

Kahlil Gibran

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Helen Reddy

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

T. Berry Brazelton

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Courage must come from the soul within,The man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad.You were born with all that the great have had,With your equipment they all began,Get hold of yourself and say: I can.(Recited by Dr. George Washington Carver during his commencement address at Selma University, Selma Alabama on May 27, 1942)

Edgar A. Guest, from the poem Eq

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Denis Waitley

Ich hasste Sport. Ich hasste Sport, und ich hasste Sportler, und ich hasste Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, und ich hasste Leute, die Leute, die sich Sport ansahen, nicht hassten.

John Green

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

Christine Gregoire

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Benjamin Franklin