Teaching is the royal road to learning. – Jessamyn West
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. – Jessamyn West

Teaching is the royal road to learning. – Jessamyn West
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. – Jessamyn West
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. – Jessamyn West
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? – Jessamyn West
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you cant just ride along. Youre learning to steer the ship, navigation youre pulling lines, keeping a lookout in the galley youre cooking. – Billy Campbell