There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

William Godwin

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

Doug Coupland

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

George Orwell

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dalai Lama XIV

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

Tony Campolo

The world has yet to see what God will do with a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to the Holy Spirit.

Henry Varley

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

Arthur Bloch

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Edward W. Howe