A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Richard Adams

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

Jetta Carleton

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

William Ellery Channing

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.

Anon.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham J. Heschel

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

Bill Frist

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Ken Kesey

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

It was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

Steve Case

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

Michael Moore

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Terry Pratchett