Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

Jonathan Kozol

Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.

Aristotle

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

William Blake

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Robbie Coltrane

Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.

Traci Harding

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego

Ambrose Bierce

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

R.J. Palacio

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

Luigi Barzini

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

R.D. Clyde

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

Francis Jeffrey

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Lincoln Steffens