I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Hosea Ballou

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Harold Coffin

Luck is for suckers.

John Green

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

Emmy Rossum

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Mary Wilson Little

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

Pope Benedict XVI

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

Charles Buxton

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

Major Owens

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar N. Bradley