One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

Edgar Cayce

Wealth maketh many friends. Proverbs 19:4

Bible

You cannot believe everything you hear

Jude Morgan

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

La Monte Young

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Leo Buscaglia

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Marston Bates

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Maria Mitchell

When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.

American Indian Proverb, Lakota

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.

Nastia Liukin

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

R. Pocock

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Donna Tartt