The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

Stephen King

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.

Proverb

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Joseph Joubert

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Eli Cass

Os deuses morrem. E, quando morrem mesmo, são esquecidos e ninguém os chora. As ideias são mais difíceis de matar do que as pessoas, mas, no fim, é possível matá-las.

Neil Gaiman

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Eric Hoffer

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Bob Feller

Blame it on the lies that killed us Blame it on the truth that ran us down You can blame it all on me, Terry It don't matter to me now.

Bruce Springsteen

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

Robert M. Gates

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

Jenna Dewan

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.

Jeane Platiere