Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another....Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct

'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.

Victor Hugo

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got Backstreet. We put Boys on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Kevin Richardson

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

G. K. Chesterton

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

Pearl Bailey

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

C.S. Lewis

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana

Sarcasm spoils reproof.

E. Wigglesworh

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Richard King