Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Ogden Nash

Being is the great explainer.

Henry David Thoreau

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Margaret Atwood

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Bette Midler

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

America Ferrera

On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

Mika Brzezinski

In teaching others we teach ourselves.

Proverb

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Mark Twain

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Tracey Ullman

All people are insane, he said. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

Kurt Vonnegut

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Jimmy Cannon

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

James S. Coleman