There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Confucius

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Daisaku Ikeda

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Oscar Wilde

I have never encountered any children in any group who are not geniuses. There is no mystery on how to teach them. The first thing you do is treat them like human beings and the second thing you do is love them.

Dr. Asa Hilliard

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Hal Borland

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Alan Perlis

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Peter Lynch

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Pablo Neruda, Memoirs, ch. 11, 1

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

Michael John Bobak

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Wernher Von Braun

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Edvard Munch