You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

Source Unknown

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

Walter Pater

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Harding Lawrence

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

C.S. Lewis

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

C.S. Lewis

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible

Mildred D. Taylor

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Dwight L. Moody

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

William Butler Yeats

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Bette Davis

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Elbert Hubbard

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Barbara Jordan

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell