Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

(Woodrow Wilson)

Erich Fromm

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you." (Erich Fromm)

Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

(Albert Einstein)

Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light.

(Plato)

Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

--Thomas Jefferson

Woody Guthrie

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that make you think that you are born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or ugly or too fat or slim or too ugly or this or that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.

I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.

I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you down a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are how your built. I am out to sing songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just like you.

I could hire out to the other side. The big money died and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind of songs that know you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you've not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow."
-Woody Guthrie

Helen Keller

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."

Helen Keller

Nelson DeMille

From Nelson DeMille's "Plum Island"

"It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished."

Nelson DeMille

From Nelson DeMille's "The Gold Coast"

She "excludes any realities that upset her prejudices."

Rauschenbusch

"Theology needs periodic rejuvenation. Its greatest danger is not mutilation but senility."

Rauschenbusch

Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

(Robert Frost)

Martin Luther

The Devil does not stay where music is.


(Martin Luther)

Leonard Matlovich

They gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.

From the tombstone of Leonard Matlovich in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC

Etienne de Grellet

"I expect to pass through
this world but once.
Any good therefore
that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show
to any fellow creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again."

"Attributed to Etienne de Grellet [1773-1855]."

Jules Joubert

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it entails.
-- Jules Joubert

Thomas Merton

Certainly we know that all will be well, but the ways in which God makes it well are apt to be difficult for us.

-- Thomas Merton

Julian of Norwich

All will be well, and all will be well, and every manner of thing will be well.

-- Julian of Norwich

Matthew Fox

"When we petition God without thanks, we are mere spiritual consumers."

Matthew Fox

GeorgeEliot

Human happiness is a web with many threads of pain in it.

(GeorgeEliot)

Joubert

Children have more need of models than of critics

(Joubert)