"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

Shaw, George Bernard on Experience
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on Ability
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"Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it."

Judalet, Curtis on Love
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"He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries."

Unknown, Source on Imitation
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"I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality."

Ballard, M. Russell on Teachers and Teaching
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"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."

Carruthers, Thomas on Teachers and Teaching
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"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."

Cohen, Herb on Appearance
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"One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Carroll, Lewis on Belief
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"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible on Love
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"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."

Arendt, Hannah on Promises
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