We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. – Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. – Joseph Addison
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. – Jon Meacham
Theres no anger ever in a spiritual. Theres always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that Im experiencing. – Jessye Norman