We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Carolyn Wells

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Jean Genet

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Jerry Seinfeld

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.

Chinese Proverb

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

John Clayton

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Jane Fonda

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

Cecily von Ziegesar

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

Jodi Picoult

But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?

Leo Tolstoy