To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
  - Peter McWilliams

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
  - William Hazlitt

"The Bible's purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible's purpose is to show you how God's grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome... Religion is 'if you obey, then you will be accepted'. But the Gospel is, 'if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you're accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey'. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference."
  - Timothy Keller

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
  - George Orwell

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
  - Arnold Toynbee

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
  - Malcolm Forbes