Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Thurgood Marshall

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Ogden Nash

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Dag Hammarskjold

I don't like politics.

will.i.am

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Judith Viorst

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Natalie Portman

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

Ethan Coen

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

John Jacob Astor

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

Holly Holm

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Richard Bach