He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.

Henry Miller

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

Steve Irwin

If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Ronald Reagan

I been doing music my whole life.

Young Buck

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

Sue Kelly

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Henri Frederic Amiel

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Malcolm X

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

George Bernard Shaw

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

William Penn