"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most." --Pablo Nervada

"A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, freighted with truth and beauty." --Pablo Nervada

"I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence." --Alice Walker

"I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for." --Alice Walker

"People do not wish to appear foolish, but they are willing to remain actually fools." --Alice Walker

"Only some people progress. The rest of the people don't." --Alice Walker

"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obligated to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever got on in the world?" --Soren Kierkegaard

"Christian scholarship is the church's prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming to close." --Soren Kierkegaard

I found a great book this week that was published in 1960. It is called The Art Of Living and is by Wilferd A. Peterson. Wow, there is a lot of inspiration in this one. Here is a sample:

"The finest gift a man can give to his age and time is the gift of a constructive and creative life." --WAP

"Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny spark of possibility within you into the flame of achievement." --WAP

"To practice the art of reading, develop a hungry, curious, questing mind and then seek your answers in books. You open doors when you open books. Read with a pencil in your hand, underlining the important passages, so you can quickly review the heart of the book. Read something each day." --WAP

"You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad." --WAP

"Keep your heart a little softer than your head." --George Santayana