But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Madonna

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

C.S. Lewis

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Cissy Houston

It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round,And here I'm dancing on the groundAm I right-side-up or upside-down,And is this real or am I dreaming?

Dave Matthews Band

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all it's a great way to travel!

Marc Jacobs

Too many people in the American media have lost any concept of loyalty to their country -- if they even consider it their country, rather than just their residence.Yeah, that's right, I'm playing the patriotism card. But not the way you think.Our country is at war. And it's a war in which victory absolutely depends on the Muslim world perceiving it as a war between the U.S and its allies on one side, and fanatical murderous terrorists on the other.If it is ever perceived as a war against Islam, then we have lost. The world has lost.So during such a difficult time, even people who think the Iraq War or even the whole war on terror is a horrible mistake still have an obligation of loyalty to the nation that offers them protection, prosperity, and freedom.Copyright

Orson Scott Card, The Riots of t

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Elias Canetti

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Victor Hugo

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

John Green

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert A. Heinlein, from Time En