"In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to attain the level of accomplishment which the traditionally taught children had reached after three and one-half years of arithmetical drill."

“You can only go forward by making mistakes.”

“Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.”

Source : "Honoring Paul Wellstone's Legacy: Fighting Like Hell for Health Care Reform" by Mike Elk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

“Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply through the faithful representation of the spirit. It is a political act to create an image of the self or of the collective.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.258, Vintage

“Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.”

“When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.”

Source : John Foxe (1830). “The martyrs, or A history of persecution: from the commencement of Christianity to the present time including an account of the trials, tortures, and triumphant deaths of many who have suffered martyrdom”, p.21

“Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils”

“Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.”

“Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.”