If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to allexcept the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

Scottie Pippen

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is always room at the top.

Daniel Webster

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Franz Kafka

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.

U. G. Krishnamurti

ESSAY A loose sally of the mind an irregular indigested piece not a regular and orderly composition.

Samuel Johnson

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

James Hillman

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Susan Neiman

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. Hebrews 13:2

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