Quote of the Day

To survive, you must tell stories.

Umberto Eco

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Susan Faludi

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Rick Riordan

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Bruno Bettelheim

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Pierre Bonnard

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Aristotle

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Maya Angelou

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

A picture is a poem without words.

Horace

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Marcus Garvey

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

Laurence D. Fink

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

Christie Brinkley

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Nicholas Sparks

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

Les Brown

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

Michael D. Higgins