I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Alexander Pope

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Jamie Moyer

When a person truly desires something, all the Universe conspires to help that person realize his dream.

Paulo Coelho

Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.

Jordin Sparks

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Charles Babbage

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Henry James

What is done to children, they will do to society.

Karl Menninger

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

Benjamin Franklin

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Bruce Lee

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

Ben Carson