You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

What is now proved was only once imagined.

William Blake

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

Michael O'Donoghue

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Lawrence D. Bell

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

Pierre Corneille

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurber

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James B. Conant

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

Harold H. Greene

Time is an illusion.

Albert Einstein

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Robertson Davies

I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Leonard Cohen

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Theodore Roosevelt