Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Marshall McLuhan

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Albert Einstein

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Maurice Sendak

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

Wendell Willkie

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him

Martin Luther King Jr.

You can't create experience, you undergo it.

Albert Camus

Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

William Shakespeare

There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I found love in the arms of another woman. Who needs two legs, a torso, or talking??

Jarod Kintz

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Thomas Friedman

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

Patrick J. Kennedy