Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -M. Scott Peck.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight.

Only the young die good.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.

Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.

Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.

It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.

Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom -Christopher Morley.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.