Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.

Charlize Theron

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

John Green

Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Greil Marcus

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

Jodi Picoult

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

Mark Twain

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all

Oscar Wilde

There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, acquire peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them. A field-marshal has his uniform; a bishop his silk apron; a counsellor his silk gown; a beadle his cocked hat. Strip the bishop of his apron, or the beadle of his hat and lace; what are they? Men. Mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Charles Dickens

Many people hold onto a grudge because it offers the illusion of power and a perverse feeling of security. But in fact, we are held hostage by our anger. It is never too late to forgive. But you can forgive too soon. I am especially wary of what I call saintly forgiveness. Premature forgiveness is common among people who avoid conflict. They're afraid of their own anger and the anger of others. But their forgiveness is false. Their anger goes underground. I define forgiving as letting someone back into your heart. This returns us to a loving state -- and not merely within the relationship -- we feel good about ourselves and the world. True forgiveness isn't easy, but it transforms us significantly. To forgive is to love and to feel worthy of love. In that sense, it is always worthwhile.

Robert Karen, Phd, Bottom Line P

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

Henry David Thoreau

Most people who fall obsessively in love claim that it happens precipitously, unexpectedly [...]But I believe there's almost always a prerequisite. Falling in love in this way will usually occur at a time of transition. We may not be conscious of it, but something has ended and something new must begin. Romantic obsession is like a cataclysm breaking up the empty landscape. Like a strange exotic plant, it grows in arid soil. (pp. 27-28)

Rosemary Sullivan