Buying is a profound pleasure.
You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
Your success as a family. . . our success as a nation. . . depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
PHP is rarely the bottleneck.
It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M. P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.