No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

Michael J. Cohen

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Michel de Montaigne

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Abraham Lincoln

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

Demian Bichir

Killing is the payoff of war.

Morley Safer

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

Charles Dickens

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Kevin James

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Benjamin Franklin

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

Giada De Laurentiis

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Theodore Roosevelt

That one moment that starts it all. The moment that gives light to the rest of your life. You're not going to realize it but, that's the beauty of it. You won't know it until you've reached the state of grace, when everything is aligned and you realize that despite your rough year the world is still spinning and taking you with it. And, no matter what happens, everything will be okay. You will always have people who love you, since before, now, and after.

A.A. Byer