"Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier."

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.”

Source : Speech on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, 10 July 1790. Usually quoted as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," which has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but no one has ever found this in his writings. Atkinson's Casket, Sept. 1833, has "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." See Andrew Jackson 5

“Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I promise. I promise. I guarantee it. If you find it didn't help you, lemme know. I will let you Taser me in the face. And by "me," I mean, some other guy who will be my stand-in. Probably some real estate agent or tollbooth attendant.”

“People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.”

Source : "Leila Josefowicz: The thrill of the new". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2010.

“As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.”

“I agree that someone falling down is really funny, and I can go on YouTube and watch people falling. It makes me laugh.”

Source : "Nathan For You's star confronts the A.V. Club mom who scorned him". Interview with Bonney Teti, tv.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.”

Source : "Author's Afterword". "Cordelia's Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

“Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.”

“In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.”