“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
– Dorothy Parker
"When I was your age,
television was called books!"
- The Princess Bride -
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day, in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men so that you’d never know which were which?”
--C.S. Lewis --Prince Caspian
Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
-- Elizabeth Barret Browning
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness,
but direct them to it by what amuses their minds,
so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy
the peculiar bent of the
genius of each.