It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!http://www.twainquotes.com/Cats.html

Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Vince Lombardi

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

Faith Hill

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Marshall McLuhan

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Edvard Munch

...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...

John Geddes

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Ernest Hemingway

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

Rosalind Wiseman

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain

William Shakespeare