Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

William Morris

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship never.

Albert Camus

The meaning of culture is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

John Cowper Powys

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

W. Somerset Maugham

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Sydney Smith

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

Shimon Peres

The physically fit can enjoy their vices.

Lord Percival

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

Nora Roberts

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Keep hope alive!

Jesse Jackson