I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?

Neil Gaiman

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of American students have learned to critique tactfully?

Barbara J. Alexander

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.

Proverb

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

Ellen Hopkins

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Samuel Johnson

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.

Edward Gardner

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

Ashley Olsen

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

Thomas Kempis

God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'

Gustavo Dudamel