A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

George Eliot

Your friend is your needs answered.

Kahlil Gibran

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Ernest Hemingway

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Gertrude Stein

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Gerald F. Lieberman

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sydney Smith

Enemies promises were made to be broken.

Aesop

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

Warren E. Burger

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.

Iyanla Vanzant

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

C.S. Lewis