An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

Source Unknown

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful.

Loren, Sophia

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Nelson Mandela

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

W. H. Auden

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape

William Shakespeare

We are pagans. We deify each other.

Lara Biyuts

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Stephen Covey

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Johann von Goethe

Among twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thingWas the eye of the blackbird.

Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways o

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Charles Dickens

'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Miguel de Cervantes

The rain falls on the just and the unjust.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi