I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Miriam Makeba

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A parable is fascinating/ In its paradoxical invitation/ In the subversion of values/ In the unconditional acceptance of life/In its total affirmation of life/ Without ifs, buts and...

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

Ben Affleck

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Johann von Goethe

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Albert Camus

With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.

Ryan Seacrest

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Calvin Coolidge

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

James Taylor

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

George Steiner, Real Presences,