The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.

James Marsters

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

Carlos Slim

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Tammy Wynette

Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

Jared Polis

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

Aldous Huxley

Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,going in circles, mounting each other.Paris is the city of love,even for the birds.

Samantha Schutz

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Jesus Christ

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Charles Caleb Colton

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Logan Pearsall Smith

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

C.S. Lewis

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Kahlil Gibran