"Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time."

“The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.”

“swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.”

“For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.”

“In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.”

Source : Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”

“I don't know nothing about nothing.”

Source : "If You Come Softly". Book by Jacqueline Woodson. Chapter 8, p. 88, 1998.

“There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world.”

“this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.”

Source : Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown

“College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.”