To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Anthony Burgess

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them

George Eliot

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

Matthew Macfadyen

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

Conan O'Brien

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

Studs Terkel

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Virginia Satir

What we need is a generation of peace.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Sally Kempton

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Jeb Bush

We were meant to give our lives away. Spend more time living your legacy instead of worrying about leaving it.

Lee J. Colan

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us

Samuel Johnson

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

John W. Gardner