By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

John Andrew Holmes

Never permit failure to become a habit.

William Frederick Book

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

Linda Sanchez

The customer is not always right. You don't go to your dentist and neurologist and say, 'You know, I have some ideas!'

Anthony Bourdain

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Richard Rogers

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

Fran Lebowitz

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Lord Byron

The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Thomas Kempis

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

Eric Hoffer