One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.NOTE: this is a proverb that is traced back to Proverbs in Scot by J. Carmichael (1628)

James Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

Bertrand Russell

There is no darkness, but ignorance.

William Shakespeare

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

Wynton Marsalis

'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.

Philip Pullman

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

Ronald Reagan

Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Ulysses S. Grant

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Kahlil Gibran

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Phillips Brooks

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot

Mark Twain