Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.Memoria certe non modo Philosophiam sed omnis / vitae usum, omnesque artes, una maxime continet

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Acad., ii

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

Paul Theroux

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

Rush Limbaugh

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Lillian Hellman

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.

Steve Maraboli

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

John Madden

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Theodore Parker

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Gaston Bachelard

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

George A. Sheehan