Clergyman's

There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
— Robert Browning

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.
- Donna Shalala

We all have this restful mind, but sometimes our fears and our ego mind get the better of us and we can’t see it.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Barack Obama

On December 16, 1992, Sam Lawrence and Kurt Vonnegut hosted a memorial service for Yates at the Century Club in Manhattan. In his eulogy Vonnegut spoke of the ""forced march"" he'd made through all nine of Yates's books before preparing his remarks: ""Not only did I fail to detect so much as an injudiciously applied semicolon; I did not find even one paragraph which, if it were read to you today, would not wow you with its power, intelligence and clarity.
- Richard Yates

“In the early days of MARC, there was a small team of people dedicated to one thing—getting the MARC Pilot Project underway. It was a team spirit that I shall never forget….
- Henriette Avram

I’m going to go obsessively run diagnostics on systems I know are solid so I can feel like I have control of something.
- Daniel Abraham

It has been well remarked of the poems of Hafiz, that their refreshing influence does not depend so much on the sense of the words as on the tone of mind produced in the reader.
- "Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben"