The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Joel Osteen

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

Jacques Derrida

The child is the father of the man.

William Wordsworth

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Ayn Rand

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Rubin

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

George W. Bush

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Mos Def

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

William Ellery Channing

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

Jack Black

Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.

Will Rogers

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.

Gail Parent

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Renata Adler