Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

Sean O'Casey

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

Susana Martinez

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

Henny Youngman

I prefer the keen edge of truth to the dull comfort of lies.

Sondra Allan Carr

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.

Hoda Kotb

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

Hermann Broch

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham

In the middle of the journey of our lifeI found myself astray in a dark woodwhere the straight road had been lost sight of.

Dante Alighieri, La Commedia Div

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Thomas Kempis