Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

C.S. Lewis

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Susan Sontag

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.

Doutzen Kroes

We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

Gilbert Adair

As the birds do love the spring, Or the bees their careful king

Henry Constable

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.

Mortimer J. Adler

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Aneurin Bevan

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Julien Green

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Barack Obama

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

Thomas Menino

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

Eugene Field