The family must be democratized in that sense in which each individual within its bond shall be sustained in seeking and in maintaining the conditions of personality. No one human being to live solely for other's service..., but all to seek the utmost perfection of individual life as a contribution to the common life; this is the democratic ideal. There seems to be no other inherited institution in which this spiritual essence of democracy can be so clearly and so well realized as it may be and today often is in the private monogamic family.

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Source Unknown

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.Mandela's son Makgatho died on Jan. 6, 2005 of illness related to AIDS, at age 54.

Nelson Mandela, Cape Times, July

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Don Marquis

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

Christopher Hitchens

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

Annette Funicello

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Arthur Erickson

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

Parker Stevenson

I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

Jennifer Garner

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Albert Camus