To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Tom Sharp

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

Janet Fitch

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Baruch Spinoza

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.

Charles S. Peirce

Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

Frederick the Great

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

Frederick Salomon Perls

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

Chris Hayes

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to tht moment.

Richard Bach, Running from Safte

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Richard Buckminster Fuller