The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one [which would] send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth — boxes of Crayolas. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination instead of death. A child who touched one wouldn’t have his hand blown off. -Robert Fulghum-

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. -Alice Moore Hubbard-

Number rules the universe. -Pythagoras-

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true … I no longer know how to use my telephone. -Bjarne Stroustrup-

“As My apprentice you’ll never be fired.” -God-

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. -H.L. Mencken-

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. -C. S. Lewis-

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world … has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. -H.L. Mencken-

The report of my death was an exaggeration. -Mark Twain-