The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?

John Geddes

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

Tama Janowitz

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

Geezer Butler

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Conrad Black

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Ernie Fletcher

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

Napoleon Bonaparte

People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!

Linda Masemore Pirrung

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Ambrose Bierce

I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

Michael Rapaport

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.

Victoria Addino

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

Walter Isaacson