The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms

James Thurber, "New York Times M

When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.

Leona Lewis

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

Maureen O'Hara

Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.

Jimmy Carter

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Bill Cosby

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Michel de Montaigne

In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism.

Spiro T. Agnew

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Shia LaBeouf

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca

We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it

Billy Joel

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Laurence J. Peter

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Phil McGraw