As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

John Abizaid

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

T. S. Eliot

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

Christina Aguilera

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Rabindranath Tagore

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Karl Pearson

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He that never thinks can never be wise.

Johnson

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

Laura Linney

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Theodore Parker

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb