The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.

Louisa May Alcott

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Pietro Aretino

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Doris Lessing

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Voltaire

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Harry S. Truman

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Abraham Lincoln

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

David Hume

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Steve Jobs

Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Jay-Z

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

Stephen Hawking