for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.

And for all he had learned to bandage himself up on the outside, the wound remained just as bad and deep as the moment it had been made - when it became obvious that the one male he wanted above all others was never, ever going to be with him.

J.R. Ward

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

James Barrie

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

Alexander McCall Smith

That failure serves a purpose!

Ogwo David Emenike

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can

Elaine May, . As quoted in Reel

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Jimmy Durante

Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin

John Dryden, Absalom and Achitop

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Theodore Roosevelt

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but a the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Wm. Paul Young

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Douglas MacArthur