Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled, And care is light, for Thou hast cared; Let not our works with self be soiled, Nor in unsimple ways ensnared. Through life's long day and death's dark night, O gentle Jesus! be our light.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Jonathan Kozol

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

Friedrich Nietzsche

If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Terence McKenna

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Charles Swindoll

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8

Bible

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Tommy Cooper

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Vincent Van Gogh

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.

John Stuart Mill

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Lawrence Durrell

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

Kate Moss

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.

Mika Brzezinski