I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

Source Unknown

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

David Baldacci

Desire is proof of the availability...

Robert Collier

The more I learn about human nature, the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

John Spratt

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

George Orwell

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

LeVar Burton

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Stockwell Day

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Richard Russo

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Eric Hoffer

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn