"America was born a Christian nation,"

“See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.”

“We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.”

“Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.182

“Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.”

Source : Song: The Autograph, Album: Friday Night Lights, 2010

“You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.”

“The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.”

Source : Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin

“It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.”

Source : "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

“The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.”