The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

I am a staunch feminist, in spite of all women's magazines.

Gerhard Kocher

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

The other night I came home late, and tried to unlock my housewith my car keys. I started the house up. So, I drove itaround for a while. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over.He asked where I lived. I said, right here, officer. Later,I parked it on the freeway, got out, and yelled at all the cars,Get out of my driveway!

Steven Wright

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

Sarah Bernhardt, The Art of the

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Arlen Specter

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Edgar Lee Masters

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

Albert Einstein

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Herbert Marcuse

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth