"No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves."

“It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.”

Source : "Octavia Butler Set a Rare Standard in Sci-Fi Listen Queue". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. February 27, 2006.

“I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.”

Source : "Nice to Meet You: Hart of Dixie Star and Country-Rap Artist, Claudia Lee!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. July 2, 2012.

“Humility is a very important trait in a critic.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the kingdom of God, will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1914.”

Source : Charles Taze Russell (1913). “Studies in the Scriptures”

“I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches.”

“Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.”

“The provision is in the promises.”

Source : Derek Prince (1997). “If You Want Gods Best”, p.7, Whitaker House

“The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”