"The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses."

“There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

“He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.”

“The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.”

Source : Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.26, Editorial MAXTOR

“To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.”

Source : Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

“to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear--filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.”

“Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.”

“I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.”

“The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.”