The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Steve Buscemi

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Og Mandino

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Billy Sunday

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Miguel de Cervantes

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Remy de Gourmont

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.

John Henry Newman, Idea of a Uni

It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

Madeleine Stowe