We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

John Keegan

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

Martin H. Fischer

I love romantic poetry.

Richard Dawkins

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

John Green

It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.

John Holt

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Thomas J. Peters

When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.

Luis Albert Machado

It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.

Sienna Miller

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

Dave Navarro

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Henry David Thoreau