This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

Pien Ch'Iao

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.

Julius Erving

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

William Shakespeare

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

Adlai Stevenson

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

Ruth St. Denis

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

Billy Corgan

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

Christopher Hitchens

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

Sir John Lubbock