Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??

Ezra Pound

There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.

Marlee Matlin

I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn't about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that.

Timothy Ciciora

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Anon.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

Christopher Hitchens

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

David Millar

We must use time creatively.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Blaise Pascal

It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

John Bartholomew Gough

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

William Shakespeare