In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maxwell Maltz

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Christopher Moore

I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that's always very well worth noticing because it's always a bad sign: he doesn't know when to sit down. He's worse than Castro was. He won't shut up. Then he told me that he didn't think the United States landed on the moon and didn't believe in the existence of Osama bin Laden. He thought all of this was all a put-up job. He's a wacko.

Christopher Hitchens

Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love food and I love to eat.

Salma Hayek

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Natalie Merchant

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh Ardele

By doubting we come at truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

Ice Cube

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky