I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.
John Keating: We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
John Keating: This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your hearts and souls.
John Keating: I SOUND MY BARBARIC YAWP OVER THE ROOFTOPS OF THE WORLD.
John Keating: Carpe diem, seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Richard Cameron: You can't save Keating, but you can save yourselves!
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.
When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.
John Keating: Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
