While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

Kurt Vonnegut

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Naguib Mahfouz

Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war is over, even the greatest warriors do not exult. They go back to their garden or kitchen or library -- or school -- and resume life.(as said by Mrs. Pearson)

Adam Gopnik

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Henry David Thoreau

I love romantic comedies.

Lil' Romeo

I'm glad I was a teacher.

John Wooden

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Ina Garten

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Henry Ford

This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger.Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning.

Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Demo

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Kiana Tom

It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.

Marilynne Robinson