Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, is mainly in need of freedom.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Keith Richards

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Christopher Durang

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

Arne Duncan

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Robert Benchley

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Ovid

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Thomas Kempis

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J. K. Rowling

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream....But the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.

Neil Gaiman

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

Adlai Stevenson

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin