I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Jean Rostand

Give up isn't going to helpKeep going on will help

Kristopher Morris

Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.

Maggie Stiefvater

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Keith Degreen

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Dale Carnegie

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

Jonathan Kozol

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

Smokey Robinson

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

C.S. Lewis

Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

Kallam Anji Reddy

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

I have never been contained except I made the prison

Mary Evans

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Comte DeBussyRabutin