"Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well."

“Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.”

“Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.”

“The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey. Address at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, March 7, 1953, 1959.

“The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.”

“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”

“Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (1974). “The designated heir”, Viking Adult

“I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com

“I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.”