My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.

Jeffrey Kluger

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

Johanna Siguroardottir

The Germans really conceive of their country as always under war conditions in this respect. No one expects a belligerent to tell the truth and, to the German mind, they are always belligerent. The Germans take the view that war is only intensified peace.

Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Anne Spencer, Letter to My Siste

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Keep cool my babies.

Conan O'Brien

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale

Thomas Jefferson

Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences.

Gwendolyn Heasley

Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money.

Stephen Richards

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Gustave Flaubert

If the truth shall have made thee free, thou shalt not care for the vain words of men

Thomas Kempis