Life is too short to work so hard.

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of societyIt is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.

Cardinal Newman

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Jean Piaget

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Flannery O'Connor

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Charles Kendall Adams

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara de Angelis

Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us or exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Paul Ambroise Valery

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

Kristen Wiig

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

Douglas Adams

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

Julie Bowen

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Bertrand Russell

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Dean Kamen