When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Robert Collier

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

George Andrew Olah

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

Carol Bellamy

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

George Bernard Shaw

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

John Wooden

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Steven Wright

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Tom Hooper

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Tom Stoppard

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Joshua Chamberlain

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

Fisher Stevens