Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Epictetus

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Georges Bernanos

Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.

Ambrose Bierce

Dreams are humans wings.

Kellie Elmore

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James A. Baldwin

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Edmund Burke

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

Joel McHale

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Alfred North Whitehead