To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

Thomas Jefferson

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

Ron White

Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

Osho

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

Talib Kweli

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

Henry Ford

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

George Lucas

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

James S. Coleman

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Roy E. Disney

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

Leonard Boswell

He enlarged perceptibly the scope for debate, liberalized appreciably the intellectual and cultural life of the country and proclaimed the obvious truth that, after an atomic exchange, little would distinguish the Communist ashes from the capitalist ashes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

Tom Jaine