765 – “I believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young.”

–L Frank Baum

Today is Tell a Fairy Tale Day, so go out and reread your favorite or tell a new one!

655 – “You do not enter the future; you create the future. The future is created through hard work.”

–Jaime Escalante [Attributed]

302 – “It’s important to understand CEOs are not job creators. Nor are the rich. Nor are corporations. The job creators are the Middle Class and the Poor, whose purchases create jobs. If the Middle Class and Poor aren’t paid enough, job creation slows. Which is why a higher minimum wage creates jobs.”

–Robert Reich, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor

189 – “In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

–Douglas Adams

133 – “A society is defined not only by what it creates, but also what it refuses to destroy.”

– John Sawhill