Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Pearl Bailey

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Arnold Glasgow

And if I didn't know better, I'd say they were doing God's work. Let them fear us. That's the thing -- let them fear us.

Christopher Hitchens

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Charles Caleb Colton

The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

Mark Zandi

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Norman Spinrad

Sight before hearsay.

Danish proverb

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Milton Friedman

Summer-induced stupidity.That was the diagnosis...

Aimee Friedman

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..

John Green

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

Dr. Richard Selzer