What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
I am incapable of mediocrity.
I've succeeded at everything except my life.
I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark.
I know my limits. That's why I'm beyond.
I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.
No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.
Joe Wright [was] almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.
If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.