If the truth shall have made thee free, thou shalt not care for the vain words of men

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

Michael Palin

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Orson Scott Card

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

Eric Bana

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

David J. Wolpe

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.

R.P.T. (Robert Peter Tristram) C

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbow'd.Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLies but the horror of the shade,And yet the menace of the yearsFinds, and shall find me, unafraid.It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley, Invictus,

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Benjamin Franklin

I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.

Haruki Murakami

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~wjpeck/mathesis.pdf

William J. Peck

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Mary Caroline Richards

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

Mary Chapin Carpenter