I gave birth to most of them MC's. . . So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.
L’architecture est art de suggestion.
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.
I don't know but maybe it's fair to say that some of the responsibility lies with the American people and not just on the leaders.
Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.
[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.
Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.