The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Barbara Mikulski

This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!

Milton Berle

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Thomas Hardy

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Adrienne Rich

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.

Orson Scott Card

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

Albert Einstein

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Orison Swett Marden

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

Optimization hinders evolution.

Anon.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Louis Kossuth

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Bernard Joseph Saurin