Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Henry George

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

Lenny Kravitz

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Johann von Goethe

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan

If you perceive yourself in a negative manner then success is next to impossible.

Steve Maraboli

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the loss of one's soul.

Victor Hugo

It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.

Orson Scott Card

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Matthew Henry

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Jane Austen