It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

William Glasser

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

William Mathews

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.

Ezra Miller

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

G. K. Chesterton

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

Ann Oakley

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Simon Newcomb

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.

Josh Billings

When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.

Carlos Ghosn

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Humberto R. Maturana

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Robert Collier

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Eli Ginzberg