But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

-Ernest Hemingway

I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched.

-John K. Hutchens

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry -- every man of every nation has done that -- 'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

-William Makepeace Thackeray

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

-Pablo Casals

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

-Dr. Dale E. Turner

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux

-American Indian Proverb