In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

The lazy man works the hardest.

Anonymous

Do you like me?No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven.

Anne Sexton

The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

G. W. F. Hegel

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

Twyla Tharp

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Cornelia Funke

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Jeremy Taylor

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Richard M. Nixon

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

Cassandra Clare

Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.

Walt Whitman

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Jean Anouilh

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe