Seattle Preparatory School November Mailer

"Vita mutatur, non tollitur."

"Life is changed, not ended."

John 14:1

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still and trust in me. ... I am going now to prepare a place for you, ... so that where I am you may be too."

Justice E. Terry Sanford, Gitlow v. New York

"A single revolutionary spark may kindle a fire that, smoldering for a time, may burst into a sweeping and destructive conflagration."

Detective Charlie Crews, Life

"Harm against one is harm against all. Harm against all is harm against myself."

Bear Grylls, Man Vs Wild

"If you risk nothing, you gain nothing."

Troy Polamalu, Strong Safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers

"When you're really intense in your training, you transcend your body. If you go till your mind says you can't go anymore, but you keep going, where you start making crazy sounds, where you really lose yourself, where you have to pull all the love and hate out of yourself - that's spirit training."

USMC Motto

"Pain is weakness leaving the body."

Benjamin Franklin

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Sri Krishna, The Bhagavad-Gita

"Give me your whole heart,
Love and adore me,
Worship me always,
Bow to me only,
And you shall find me:
This is my promise
Who love you dearly.

Lay down all duties
In me, your refuge.
Fear no longer,
For I will save you
From sin and from bondage."

Andrea Elliot, metro reporter The New York Times

"...I always strive for something in between, and I think that gave me a combination of longing and detachment. Anyone who has straddled two cultures knows that feeling. You learn to be more of an observer than a participant. So, naturally, journalism appealed to me."

"The greatest thing about journalism is how it inserts us - often uncomfortably, sometimes unforgettably - into the world. We look, we listen and we share the story of life. The story is almost always larger than we are, but without us, who would tell it."

-Best Newspaper Writing edited by Amy Colón and Julie Moos