Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

Helen Keller

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

Harry Mathews

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

Leonard Peltier

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

J. Cole

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

Hayden Christensen

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Fanny Burney

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Hari Dass Baba

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Robert M. Hutchins

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Philippe Nericault Destouches

All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.

Sydney Smith

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Jessamyn West