And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Henry Ward Beecher

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Charles Schumer

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

William Glasser

Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Alistair Cooke

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Mary Pickford

There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.

John R. Allen

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

Corey Feldman

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.

Richard Bach

I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Woody Allen

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Wayne Dyer