My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Joe Namath

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Paul Wolfowitz

Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?

Jacqueline Rayner

By doing nothing we learn to do ill.

Proverb

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Henry A. Wallace

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Robert M. Hutchins

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Samuel Johnson

[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Plato

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Dejan Stojanovic