As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Brian Celio

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Mahatma Gandhi

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.

Victor Hugo

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

Aristotle

I love making music, though. I love playing.

Pharrell Williams

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Mark Twain

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Yiddish Proverb

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

Stephen King

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare Blese be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones

William Shakespeare

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

John Dryden