Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Will!He turned at the familiar voice and saw Tessa. There was a small path cut along the side of the hill, lined with unfamiliar white flowers, and she was walking up it, toward him. Her long brown hair blew in the wind she had taken off her straw bonnet, and held it in one hand, waving it at him and smiling as if she were glad to see him. His own heart leaped up at the sight of her. Tess, he called. But she was still such a distance away she seemed both very near and very far suddenly and at the same time. He could see every detail of her pretty, upturned face, but could not touch her, and so he stood, waiting and desiring, and his heart beat like the wings of seagulls in his chest. At last she was there, close enough that he could see where the grass and flowers bent beneath the tread of her shoes. He reached out for her

Cassandra Clare

...There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all the chantments, the high notes and the low, the swift rhythms and the slow. And this person would be more powerful than even the Ancient Ones were, as powerful as the gods themselves.

Kate Constable

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Iris Murdoch

Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

Huey Newton

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/middle/mid_10.html

George Eliot, Middlemarch, bk. 1

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Orson Scott Card

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Confucius

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Oscar Wilde

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Sir Winston Churchill

What man can be a real man...if he does not try and help make the world a better place!

Timothy Pina

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Francis Wright