If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. (Confucius)
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. (Sir Richard Francis Burton)
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. (Dwight D Eisenhower)
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it. (Lawana Blackwell)
God's people have no assurances that the dark experiences of life will be held at bay, much less that God will provide some sort of running commentary on the meaning of each day's allotment of confusion, boredom, pain, or achievement. (David Wells)
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. (Harry Firestone)
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. (Burnadette Devlin)
To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. (Johann von Goethe)
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. (Jean Cocteau)
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized--never knowing. (Jim Rohn)
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. (Booker T. Washington)
Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum. (Jeffrey Vlaming)
How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in (Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. (Robertson Davies)
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future. (Graham Green)
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. (Duffy Daugherty)
Ricky Max, ah, one more thing, ah ... who am I dropping this off to Who gets their hands on this Max That's your per diem. Ricky Yeah, that's my per diem, and who do I give it to Who do I drop it off to (Made)