Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Samuel Johnson

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Virginia Satir

Those who look behind will never see beyond.

Sherry K. White

Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows maybe even tomorrow.

Haruki Murakami

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

John Ciardi

Suddenly, over the slope, as if tethered to a cord of air drawing quickly upward, came a Northern Harrier, motionless but for its rising. So still was the bird - wings, tail, head - it might have been a museum specimen. Then, as if atop the wind, it slid down the ridge, tilted a few times, veered, tacked up the hill, its wings hardly shifting. I though, if I could be that hawk for one hour I'd never again be just a man.

William Least Heat Moon

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

The two most powerful weapons are courage and persistence. Nothing can stop a person armed with both.

Scott Sorrell

Practice only makes for improvement.

Les Brown

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Edward George BulwerLytton