Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

William Weld

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Bell Hooks

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

Liz Phair

If school success were a reliable index of human capacity, we should be able to go a step further and say that the intelligence test is a general measure of human capacity. But of course no such claim can be made for school success, for that would be to say that the purpose of the schools is to measure capacity. It is impossible to admit this. The childÂ’s success with school work cannot be a measure of a childÂ’s success in life. On the contrary, his success in life must be a significant measure of the schoolÂ’s success in developing the capacities of the child. If a child fails in school and then fails in life, the school cannot sit back and say: you see how accurately I predicted this. Unless we are to admit that education is essentially impotent, we have to throw back the childÂ’s failure at the school, and describe it as a failure not by the child but by the school.http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5172/

Walter Lippmann

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a blame to any people.

Bible

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Tori Amos

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

Source Unknown

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

P. J. O'Rourke

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

James Dyson

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

Orson Scott Card