Consular Fellows Quotes & Sayings

Wise words are all well and good when they are spoken by wise people, but when egomaniacal assholes are tossing them around, they are just words. — Autumn Doughton

You need a hundred cheat to cover one. — Someone

If there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
one. It will not be a pansy heaven or
a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but
it will be a heaven of blackred roses
my father will be(deep like a rose
tall like a rose)
standing near my
swaying over her
(silent)
with eyes which are really petals and see
nothing with the face of a poet really which
is a flower and not a face with
hands
which whisper
This is my beloved my
(suddenly in sunlight
he will bow,
and the whole garden will bow) — E. E. Cummings

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement. — Vilayat Inayat Khan

Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load ... These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age. — James P. Comer

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough. — Dominick Dunne