"When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else."

-- Lilian Jackson Braun

“The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
“Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?”

Source : Suzanne Weyn (2012). “The Bar Code Rebellion”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.
“God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.”
“The second rector of [St. John's in] Providence was blown out of church one Sunday by 'an extraordinary gust of wind,' and the people, welcoming this ejection as an act of heaven, refused to let him in again.”
“This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones.”

Source : "Seth Green Shares His Secrets of Financial Success as Unbroke Premieres". Interview with Andrea Chalupa, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2009.
“What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on.”

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