I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

Neil Gaiman

When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble.

Source Unknown

The end never really justifies the meanness.

E. Duane Hulse

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Bo Lozoff

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Harriet Martineau

They deceive themself and thus us; merchants and tycoons of the world. Evil has gone from bad to worse for a worthless reward.

James Dye

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

James Merrill

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Lewis Carroll

I am trying to walk a tightrope trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

David Guetta

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

Michel de Montaigne, Essais

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Jerry Chin