When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Herodotus

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

Robert Sternberg

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

Hank Nuwer, The Hazing Reader

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Martha Graham

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Chinese Proverb

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Will Rogers

My eyes went straight to a soft woman who sat facing the wrong way at the bar top. Soft, because I knew if I were to touch her skin, it would feel like a peach, the kind of woman you could almost smell from inside the building. Instead of facing Andy, she had her back to him, keeping an eye on the door. That must be her. Her hair was exquisite. She was really the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. A golden crown of braids and curls complimented her sun-kissed skin. Her dress draped perfectly over her body, and in that moment, I needed her more than I needed air.

Chelsie Shakespeare

Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out.

Sara Quin

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

Muqtada al Sadr

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Bill Vaughan

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort