Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Edward Koch

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Leonardo DaVinci

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Victor Hugo

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Arnold Bennett

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

Ezra Pound

If you don't want to deal with the devil, don't go in his shop. Keep on the Lord's side of the fence.

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I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!

Vanessa Hudgens

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

Dave Mustaine

Victor invented me, in a way. He gave me a desk and a sponsor and a place to hang my hat, which was what I needed.

Christopher Hitchens

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Honore de Balzac