(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

Michael Caine

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

David Seabury

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

Ronald Reagan

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

Joyce Carol Oates

Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.

R.D. Clyde

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Alice Walker

I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.

Moli

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivan Illich

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Virginia Satir

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

L. P. Jacks

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

David Steinberg

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley