Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

Mandy Moore

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

Anna Paquin

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

C. Wright Mills

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Sight before hearsay.

Danish proverb

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Denis Waitley

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Orson Scott Card

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Henry Miller

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

William James

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

G. M. Trevelyan

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Ho Chi Minh