If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Nelson Mandela

And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the Gospel, they may be divided either into infidels, who deny the truth; or politicians who make religion a stalking horse for their ambition; or professors, who walk in the trammels of orthodoxy, and are more attentive to traditions and ordinances of men than to the oracles of truth.

Samuel Adams

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Riley

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Brent Weeks

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Audre Lorde

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may-no matter how generous and good his nature- one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.

Charles Dickens

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.

Wallace Stevens, Adagia

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

Alvin Lee

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Theodore White

O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!

William Shakespeare

Faith doesn't rely on odds or statistical data. God only requires that we have faith; the rest is up to him.

Nancy Stephan

TEAM -- Together Everyone Achieves More.

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