To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Criss Jami

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Quintilian

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Oscar Wilde

This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.

Jack Kevorkian

I was an elementary school teacher.

Luciano Pavarotti

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

J. K. Rowling

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler

As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

Idina Menzel

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

Mac Davis

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Leo Tolstoy