A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Stephen Covey

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Nelson Mandela

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Helen Hunt

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

George E. P. Box

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

Douglas Adams

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Jerry Saltz

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

William R. Alger

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

Bill Keller

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Thomas Moore

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman