Education is the mother of leadership.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Jack Kornfield

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell: Life of

He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries.

Source Unknown

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Deepak Chopra

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Dave Barry

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

Haile Gebrselassie

The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.

Melissa Bradley

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

David Mamet

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Zora Neale Hurston

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

H. Ross Perot

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

Joseph Fiennes