None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.

Norman Borlaug

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

Walter Mosley

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Herman Melville

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.

Tryon Edwards

When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world

Pope John Paul II, To 19,000 stu

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

Kurt Vonnegut

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Abraham Lincoln

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Henry Ward Beecher

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Roy Hattersley

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm