Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or s ubstance over another is determined by philosophy.

By assigning a position of pr imary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, ph ilosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of spe culative thought. -Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear. No longer will the fool be called noble nor the scoundrel be highly respected. -The Bible, Isaiah 32:4-5, NIV. But the noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds he stands. -The Bible, Isaiah 32:8, NIV. The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be qu ietness and confidence forever. My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely, how blessed you will be, sowing your seed b y every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free. -The Bible, Isa iah 32:17-20, NIV. The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfe ct men. -George Eliot The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. -Voltaire Repetition, repetition, repetition can, can, can be used, used, used to train th e mind, mind, mind. -China Sinclair He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extorti on and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil-this is the man who will d well on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and water will not fail him. Your eyes will see the king in his bea uty and view a land that stretches afar. -The Bible, Isaiah 33:15-17, NIV. My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice. -Jesus Christ, The Bible, Luke 8:21. NIV. In the town of Arnstadt, a church council held a meeting in which they decided t o reprimand their organist, Johann Sebastian Bach as follows: "Complaints have b een made to the Consistorium that you now accompany the hymns with surprising va riations and irrelevant ornaments which obliterate the melody and confuse the co ngregation. If you desire to introduce a theme against the melody, you must go o n with it and not immediately fly off to another." If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever lose s his life for me will save it. -Jesus Christ, Luke 9:23-24, NIV. At the Day of Judgment we shall not be examined on what we have read, but what w e have done; not on how well we have spoken, but on how faithfully we have lived . -Thomas Kempis Are you contentious, easily troubled about trifles? -Oswald Chambers Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. -Heywood Broun To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. -Oscar Wilde There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not b e made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from th e roofs. -Jesus Christ, Luke 12:2-3, NIV. Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yoursel ves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, whe re no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there y our heart will be also. -Jesus Christ, Luke 12:32-34, NIV. Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. I tell you the

truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. -Jesus Christ, Luke 1 2:42-44, NIV. If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. -Thomas Wolfe Never let yesterday use up to much of today. -Will Rogers Some pursue happiness, others create it. -Unknown Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared. -George Allen I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them. -Jean Shinoda Bolen Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimina tion though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. -Alfred Edw ard Housman The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the a ssumptions that the rest of us accept. -John W. Gardner The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means han ging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than y ou're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding ac cordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They a re extinct, they are extinction. -Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative. When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it sh ould be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely dem onstrated that not all the performers are well trained. -Edward R. Murrow (Writing is) all about setting aside just a little time to write each week. ... Figure out what works and make it completely non-negotiable. -Lauren Weisberger The art of discrimination is the art of letting oneself go, more and more willfu lly; letting oneself go along the lines of one's unique predilections; letting o neself go with the resolute push of the inquisitive intellect; the intellect who se role it is to register--with just all the preciseness it may--every one of th e little discoveries we make on the long road. -John Cowper Powys, Suspended Ju dgments, 1916.