When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.

Orson Scott Card

I once said cynically of a politician, Hell double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.

Oscar Levant

Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Charles Stanley

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Mother Jones

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

C.S. Lewis

This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,Was saved the Union of these States.

Walt Whitman, Memories of Presid

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Albert Camus

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill

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

Hank Nuwer, The Hazing Reader

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

Roy Barnes

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Fernando Pessoa