Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

Never put a sock in a toaster.

Eddie Izzard

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

Spike Lee

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

Mae West

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Thomas Jefferson

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

Bill Budge

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

Joan Rivers

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

Benjamin Franklin

There are all kinds of courage,' said Dumbledore, smiling. 'It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

J.K. Rowling

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Jodi Picoult

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

John Ruskin

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson