Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Rep

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Joe Baca

Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.

Richard D. Rosen

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Albert Einstein

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Barbara de Angelis

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Thomas Babington Macaulay

You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Martha Stewart

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Norma Shearer

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Ralph B. Perry