No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no mans education is complete. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. – John Lubbock, “Recreation,” The Use of Life, 1894
Its not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that its been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. – Cate Blanchett
Its very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed. – Ruth J. Simmons
Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. – Zach Wamp
