This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't hear the referee.

H. E. Jansen

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Epicurus

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Andre Gide, Journal

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

George Orwell

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Donna Shalala

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Thomas Aquinas

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

William Allen White

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

W. S. Merwin

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Aristotle

Words are the small change of thought.

Jules Renard

As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.

Elizabeth Esty