We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Sarah Wayne Callies

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

Paul Graham

The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.

Thomas Carlyle

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

Henry Jacobsen

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Karl Von Clausewitz

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Neil Gaiman

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

Jodi Picoult

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Jodi Picoult