In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

There's a difference between interestand commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do itonly when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, youaccept no excuses - only results.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napoleon Hill

I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.

J.K. Rowling

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

John Jay Chapman

The French courage proceeds from vanity

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I honestly, sincerely love what I do.

Mary Hart

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

Ann Veneman

There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Eric Hoffer

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Clarence Clemons

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

Erin Gruwell