I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

Gustav Heinemann

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

James Lee Burke

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Anna Held

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

Sports should always be fun.

Charles Mann

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

Jane Austen

Discipline is not something I impose on you so I can control you. Rather, it is something you must develop within yourself so you can become the best person you can be, not the one who could have been.I said this to my class of 9th graders once and had to stop everything and write it down

Timothy F. Hough

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth.He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare.

Toba Beta

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Samuel Alito

Truth will triumph. It always does. However, I figure truth is a variable, so we're right back where we started from.

Lewis Padgett

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

Jeanette Winterson