"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave." — Emily Bronte, English author, born 1818
"It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn." — Emily Bronte, English author, born 1818
"In 2024, 77 million American voters looked at Trump and saw nothing morally disqualifying about the man." — David Brooks, NY Times Columnist, born 1961
"We don’t become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. We don’t become what we know. Education is a process of love formation. When you go to a school, it should offer you new things to love." — David Brooks, NY Times Columnist, born 1961
"We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom. That’s because wisdom isn’t a body of information. It’s the moral quality of knowing what you don’t know and figuring out a way to handle your ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation." — David Brooks, NY Times Columnist, born 1961
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air." — Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet, born 1917
"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes." — Mel Brooks, American comedian, born 1926
"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively." — Mel Brooks, American comedian, born 1926