"There was celebration and happiness, hugs and kisses."

“It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.”

“But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.45

“...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.”

“Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.”

“Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.”

“Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.”

Source : Linda Wisdom (2008). “50 Ways to Hex Your Lover”, p.124, Sourcebooks, Inc.

“The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.”

“It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.”

Source : Page Smith (1990). “Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America”, Viking Adult