"And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such."

“You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it”

“Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.”

“But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.”

Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (1894). “When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls”

“I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.”

Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

“Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.”

“Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.”

Source : Joseph Cook (187?). “God and the Conscience: Love and Marriage”

“There is no fortune so good that you can find nothing in it to complain of.”

“However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.”