Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Bryant H. McGill

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

David Lloyd

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

Allen West

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Ed Bradley

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Margaret Cho

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taught myself to do. It was a tall, conical wizard's model, covered with chemical equations and formulae: a cornucopia of ideas.

Alan Bradley

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

Marc Garneau