"What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same."

“There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

“Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.83, New World Library

“When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles.”

Source : Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

“This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.”

“Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.4, Basic Books

“They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.”

“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.”

Source : John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.83, Diversion Books