Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Thomas Carlyle

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.

J. R. R. Tolkien

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Satchel Paige

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

William Shakespeare

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

Linda Sanchez

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Henry Fielding

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Samuel Butler

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Queen Latifah

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Paul Ryan

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

Robert Burns