Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Neil Young

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

Norman MacCaig

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Will Rogers

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

Chris Brown

Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

Christopher Hitchens

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde

The price of being the best is having to be the best.

Terry Pratchett

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~

Michelle Horst