Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

Seth Brown

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Robert B. Parker

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Rodney Dangerfield

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

Anna Quindlen

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Shirin Ebadi

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Orson Scott Card

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Phyllis Schlafly

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

David SteindlRast