My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

Terry Pratchett

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Murray Gell-Mann

I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.

Emily Giffin

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

Steven Cojocaru

I just feel my best when I'm all glammed up.

Kim Kardashian

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

Stanislav Grof

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.

Peter Jurasik

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Diogenes

How much longer will you sit back and wait for your dream to spontaneously come true? Too many days, weeks, months, and years have passed! Do not be unresponsive to your own dreams. Now, set a course of action that will lead to bringing your dream into reality.

Steve Maraboli

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy

Thomas Carlyle