I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your voice to be my voice.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

H. P. Lovecraft

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

Source Unknown

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Felicia D. Hemans

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Armstrong Williams

Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

C.S. Lewis

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert William Service

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos, p.333

If I imagine my soul, as I do when I pray, it's shaped like Stapafel. No change of place or religion can alter that. I lived beneath Stapafel from the hour I was born until I was sixteen. I've never seen it since, but that doesn't matter. My soul is in the likeness of a jagged peak with a rock like a man standing on its summit, and snags of rock shaped like trolls along its spine. Screes defend it, although it's not quite inaccessible if you know the way up.

Margaret Elphinstone

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Charles R. Swindoll

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber