Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Daisaku Ikeda

Grief is light that is capable of counsel.

Proverb

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Phyllis Schlafly

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

Chris Burke

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

James D'arcy

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

Charles Kuralt

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I

Harold Bloom

When schools flourish, all flourishes

Martin Luther King Jr.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Marjane Satrapi

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Jim Valvano

I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.

Graham Greene