Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

Wilhelm Wundt

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

Emily Giffin

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

John Geddes

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Rupert Murdoch

When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.

Elizabeth Hurley

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

Kevin Rudd

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

James Tobin

The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

Michel Templet

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Charles Babbage

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

Epictetus

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

John H. Patterson

With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Jean Jacques Rousseau