I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

Harold H. Greene

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

John H. Holcomb

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

Nina Simone

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Source Unknown

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

John Ruskin

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

Charles Pierce

You point your feet out too much when you walk, Will went on. He was busy polishing an apple on his shirtfront, and appeared not to notice Tessa glaring at him. Camille walks delicately. Like a faun in the woods. Not like a duckI do not walk like a duck.I like ducks, Jem observed diplomatically. Especially the ones in Hyde Park.

Cassandra Clare

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

A. N. Wilson

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

Hoda Kotb

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan