It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness.

Joshua Loth Liebman

I work until beer o'clock.

Stephen King

You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same.

Raymond Chandler

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Tim Robbins

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

George Burns

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

John Florio

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Robert Anton Wilson

The key to why things change is the key to everything.

James Burke

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?

Vernon Howard

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne