If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker.

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Peter Russell

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Aime Cesaire

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Mahatma Gandhi

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

David Crystal

The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks.

Source Unknown

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Ann Coulter

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Stephen King

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

Lionel Trilling

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal

John Green

...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...

John Geddes

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Annie Lennox