Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Peter Ustinov

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF -- 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

Richard Nelson Bolles, What Colo

To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Mortimer Adler

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

Robert Morgan

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Steve Jobs

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Robert Fitzgerald

I do desire we may be better strangers.

William Shakespeare

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.Adapted from an L.L. Bean Co. poster: What is a customer? by J. M. Eaten

William W. Purkey, What is a Stu