My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain

I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

James Joyce

Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Ambrose Bierce

Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say

Friedrich Nietzsche

Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Thomas Hardy

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Talib Kweli

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

Abraham Lincoln

Power is the ability to get things done.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Thomas Szasz

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Thomas Carlyle

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Samuel Johnson

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill