There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

Don Williams, Jr

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intima

That's the thing about pain...it demands to be felt.

John Green

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Friedman

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

P. D. James

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

Kathy Ireland

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.

Habeeb Akande

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Willie Nelson

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.

Gerome Ragni, from the musical H

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Jerome Bruner

I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

Albert Einstein