Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God. (132)

Ann Hood

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Sidney Hook

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, Thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate.

James Allen

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

Salman Rushdie

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

Olin Miller

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

Steve Prefontaine

Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

Randy Alcorn

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act if it weren't, more women would do it.

Kate Clinton

There are many truely horrible things goin' on in the world whilst we're lost to the druthers over spilled milk.

James Dye