The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

A man who experiences difficult trials usually receives special visions

Struggles not only make us into stronger, better and wiser people, they also let us learn more about ourselves and our purpose in life.

...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....

we will always be with u. we internalize traits we observe in others as a way to honor and remeber them. we are all living memorials

I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.