Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Josh Billings

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Margaret Spellings

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

Yanni

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Emanuel Steward

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Pearl S. Buck

And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern-- and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.

Jane Austen

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Cher

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Joseph Joubert

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Anthony de Mello