When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

Ed O'Neill

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

Colette Dowling

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Denis Waitley

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Ogden Nash

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

Jodi Picoult

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

John Cheever

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Viktor E. Frankl

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

Herbie Mann