Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? – Cesar Chavez
Im not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. Ill try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but Im not sure if Ill be able to. – Silvio Berlusconi
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. – Thomas Mann
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regimes strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. – Ma Jian