Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Ellen Glasgow

Zeal to do all that is in one's power is, in truth, a proof of piety.

Julian

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Plato

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Robert Collier

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Cat Stevens

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Jack Kerouac

Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides.

Bob Dylan

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

William James

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

John Milton Cage

In order to have a spiritual life, you need not enter a seminary, or fast, or abstain, or take a vow of chastity. All you have to do is have faith and accept God. From then on, each of us becomes a part of His path. We become vehicles for His miracles.

Paulo Coelho