I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.

Sherri Shepherd

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

William Cowper

Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.

Stephen King

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Giancarlo Esposito

This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!

William Shakespeare

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

Sidney Altman

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Henry David Thoreau

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Terence McKenna

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Thomas Jefferson

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

Jonathan Kozol

I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

Brian Koslow