No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

David McCullough

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Robert Frost

The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Chris Evert

It must be murder to be an aging beauty, a former Tadzio, to see your future as an ignored spectator rushing up to meet you like the hard pavement. What a small sip of gall to be able to time with each passing year the ever-shorter interval in which someone's eyes focus upon you. And then shift away.

David Rakoff

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Emmet Fox

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart

Elizabeth Chandler

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Shimon Peres

Definition of Politics: Poli in latin meaning many and tics meaning blood-sucking parasites.

Anon.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You make a living by what you earn; you make a life by what you give.

Winston Churchill