Believe me my young friend; there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Julian Bond

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

Nathan Deal

I should be an affected women, if I made any pretence of being surprised by my son's inspiring such emotions; but I can't be indifferent to anyone who is so sensible on his merits

Charles Dickens

To be awake is to be alive.

Henry David Thoreau

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Jean Rostand

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Billy Collins, "New York Times"

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Wayne Gretzky

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

Steve Forbes

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Gene Brown

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Emmet Fox

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

Antonia Fraser