"It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty."

“Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so; I'd rather call them curiosity and courage. Curiosity to look for the new and the hidden; courage to develop your own tastes regardless of what others might say or think.”

“My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.”

“The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.”

“I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.48

“A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.”

Source : "Women and the Reality of the Arab Spring: Writing New Constitutions, Leaving Out Women’s Rights" by Vivian Norris, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

“Generally speaking, "an eye single to the glory of God" means sacrifice. It means that instead of endlessly doing what we want to do, we have to do what the Lord wants us to do, but we have to do it in his way when he wants us to do it.”

“Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.”

“Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.”