Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self..

Bill Murray

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Sarah Boseley

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Robert Collier

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Ursula K. Le Guin

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Gita Bellin

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

Paul D. Boyer

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Knox

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day.

Henry David Thoreau

Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe