One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

George Sand

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Will Rogers

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Deepak Chopra

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Clarence Day

At least I carpe'd that one diem.

John Green

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Socrates

If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.

Proverb

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

Howard Nemerov

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Graham Greene

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Stockard Channing

Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.

Mark Oliver Everett