Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

Jeb Bush

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

Heather Morris

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Ferdinand De Saussure

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Emile Zola

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln

My personal trials have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. Recognizing the necessity for suffering I have tried to make of it virtue. If only to save myself from bitterness, I have attempted to see my personal ordeals as an opportunity to transform myself and heal the people involved in the tragic situation, which now obtains. I have lived these last few years with the conviction that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Christ

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Lee Iacocca

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Anthony Trollope

All great ideas are dangerous.

Oscar Wilde

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. What its great thinkers have thought and written on the deepest problems of life, shall we not hear and enjoy? The future calls upon us to prepare its way. Dare we fail to answer its solemn summons?

Felix Adler