When He talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Terry Eagleton

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Stephen King

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore de Balzac

The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations. It is raising up a monied aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a dark continent for psychology.

Sigmund Freud

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

Oscar Wilde

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Tre Cool

Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

William Shakespeare

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Source Unknown

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Edward A. Navajo

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Colin Powell