I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Wilson Mizner
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Vladimir Lenin
There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo Coelho
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
Stephen King
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
Aeschylus
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
