No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

Donna Shalala

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

George Saunders

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

Salman Rushdie

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

Naomi Campbell

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Robert Kiyosaki

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

John Lasseter

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Peace Pilgrim

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

Michael N. Castle

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

John Eldredge

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Hazlitt

When you have done your best and still failed, use Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards