Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.

Bill Shuster

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?

Cornelia Funke

The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

Paul Ryan

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

(Purkey credits his leadership characteristics to these threee events) http://www.elmle.org/CopenhagenSpeakers.htm http://www.invitationaleducation.net/

William W. Purkey

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Jim Capaldi

The dog is the god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Dorothy Parker

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds

Aldous Huxley

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

Arthur Erickson