Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.

Ambrose Bierce

School is an institution for drilling children in cultural orientation. ...American classrooms, like educational institutions anywhere, express the values, preoccupations,and fears found in the culture as a whole. School has no choice; it must train the children to fit the culture as it is. ...Since education is always against some things and for others, it bears the burden of the cultural obessions. ...It thus comes about that most educational systems are imbued with anxiety and hostility, that they are against as many things as they are for. ... The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them...acquiescence, not originality. ...Schools are the central conserving force of the culture.

Jules Henry, Culture Against Man

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

Delta Goodrem

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

Richard Reeves

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

Terry Pratchett

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

William Shakespeare

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Andrei Platonov

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Ibrahim Babangida

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The polls...indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the youth vote. And that he might carry all fifty states....This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves -- that we really are just a nation of...used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anyone else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.written on the eve of the 1972 election

Hunter S. Thompson, from Fear an

Records are made to be broken.

Terry Vaughn