The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have.

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

Cassandra Clare

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

Ricky Williams

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

John Calvin

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

English Proverb

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

Dean Norris

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

Leo Durocher

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Charles H. Parkhurst

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin