Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Ambrose Bierce

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

William Glasser

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

Dennis Conner

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

Ryan Giggs

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Kozol

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

Richard M. Helms

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

George Will

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

Homer Rice

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

Dan Quayle

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Benjamin Franklin