Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Talib Kweli

Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.

Orson Scott Card

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

Sloane Crosley

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

If fortune smiles, who doesn't? If fortune doesn't, who does?

Chinese Proverb

In America everything's about who's number one today.

Bruce Springsteen

Give us that grand word woman once again, and let's have done with lady; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Mickey Hart

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Ronald Reagan

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.

Paula Danziger