"The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all."

“This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.”

“To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.”

“View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

“Sometimes the only way to keep love, is to let it go.”

“Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.”

“Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.”

Source : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.10, Stenhouse Publishers

“The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.”

Source : "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

“Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.”