I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird's throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather.

William Shakespeare

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

Lucinda Williams

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Samuel Johnson

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.

Phil Jackson

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Martin Cruz Smith

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Jerry Saltz

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

Debi Thomas

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Mahatma Gandhi

And gain is gain, however small.

Robert Browning

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Frederik Pohl

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Chaucer