"Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out."

“I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.”

Source : William Augustus Muhlenberg (1871). “"I Would Not Live Alway."”, p.16

“As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed paths with him, he was trying to kill us. or ratar, capture, torture, and then killus, none of which are productive to establishing a close relationship" _ Jeod”

“Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.”

“You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.”

“There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.”

“I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.224, Basic Books

“I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.”

“Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.”