In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Lord Alfred Douglas, Collected P

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

John F. Kennedy

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

John Ruskin

By guts I mean, grace under pressure

Ernest Hemingway

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Nora Roberts

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'

Zach Braff

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Al Neuharth

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

Ryan Hurst

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

James Thurber

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

Raoul Vaneigem

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Anne Bronte