“ [I was raised in] West Texas where people can dream big dreams and achieve them. But where people also have a great sense of community. They cared about their neighbors. And those values, I think, have stood me well. George W. Bush 43rd U.S. President
“ There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer
“ Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools William Bennett Former United States Secretary Of Education
“ Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist
“ The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be. Florence Nightingale Statistician
“ Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends. Amber Tamblyn Actress
“ for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people. Fran Lebowitz Author