The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Thomas S. Kuhn

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Philip Pullman

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston

When the management iceberg is shaped like a huge phallus, you know that there are a lot of tossers that the top penguin has had to climb over to reach the tip and that there is no shortage of the same caliber of penguin in the balls and shaft of the corporation, just waiting for their chance to get a spurt to the top. Should I sugar coat this a little more? or tell it like it is?

Daniel Prokop

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Albert Einstein

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Emily Carr

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

Gloria Estefan

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Getting to know someone is like investigating a crime scene where the culprit is constantly allowed to rearrange the evidence.

Adnan Mithani