"The Golden Rule will always be good advice!"

“I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.”

“Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

“Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?”

“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”

“It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.”

“So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.”

Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.9, Harper Collins

“My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.”

“Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.”

Source : "Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to baby boy, third in line to the throne" by Caroline Davies and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2013.