Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

George Saunders

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

It's difficult to discern the blessing in the midst of brokenness. Certain circumstances in life hurt, at times so intensely that we think we will never heal. After brokenness, we can experience God's greatest blessings. The dawn after a very dark and storm-wracked night is glorious. Joy after a period of intense mourning can be ecstatic. Brokenness is what God uses to replace our self-life with his desires and intents for us. Its end is blessing far greater than we could ever discover apart from being broken. It's spiritual maturity and joyous intimacy with God. Greater depth and power in our ministry to others. New dimensions of freedom, strength, and peace. And a wholeness that comes as God himself reassembles us into someone more closely resembling Jesus Christ.

Dr. Charles Stanley

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Brigham Young

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Samuel Johnson

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~wjpeck/mathesis.pdf

William J. Peck

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

Esperanza Spalding

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

Susan Rice

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

John Grisham

How can a girl look so innocent and so hot at the same time?

Angela Richardson