I love you, Skye. You’re in my heart, in my head, under my skin. You’re my present and my future.

— Stephanie Witter

I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.

— Stephanie Witter

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

— Eli Of Kittim

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

— Isaiah Hankel

It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know why Anna had to die, and instead they told you that 19th century Russian landowners felt conflicted about whether they were really a part of Europe. The implication was that it was somehow naive to want to talk about anything interesting, or to think that you would ever know anything important.

— Elif Batuman

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learned. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

— Israelmore Ayivor

Maybe Duke was just the kind of person you don’t keep in your life, but the kind of person that changes your life forever.

— Stephanie Witter

Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The complementary arts of integration are far less well-developed. This problem is at the core of human ecology. As with any interdisciplinary pursuit, it is the bridging across disparate ways of knowing that is the constant challenge.

— Richard J. Borden

My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

— Lailah Gifty Akita