Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

Jeanne Birdsall

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Noomi Rapace

If we're happy, to be happy together. If we're are sad, to be sad together. To always know the other is there for us. The best of friends... and so much more.

Kasey Michaels

That fellow seems to posses but one idea and that is the wrong one.

Samuel Johnson

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erik H. Erickson

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

Source Unknown

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. Proverbs 22:15

Bible

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

J. J. Abrams