Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Carl Gustav Jung

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Bruce Lee

Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.

Kahlil Gibran

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

George Osborne

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

Lee Rudolph

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

John Knox

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Tommy Lee Jones

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

Anne Perry

Twenty-five years ago, while an undergraduate at Stanford, I got a job on campus as a lifeguard, deepening a love of swimming and water that has lasted throughout my life. I took the duties seriously and studied the swimmers with professional vigilance, relieved at the end of each day that no emergency rescue had been required. But the greatest challenge of the job was standing poolside in a bathing suit with my body on display.Work began in the locker room, where I changed into my Speedo and surveyed my reflection, assessing what would be on view for the next few hours. I was plagued by self-criticism. I imagined the swimmers judging my shape, until I made myself remember that I was there to guard their lives, not their fantasies. Later I performed my variation of the same ablutions everyone else did, showering and hair washing, the application of lotion and makeup -- preparations for re-entering the other world of walking upright on solid land.

Elizabeth Rosner, "The New York

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Henry Giles

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

Paul Harris