To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Henry David Thoreau

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Guy Bellamy

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Oscar Wilde

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

Ann Curry

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

Penelope Leach

Don't steal. The government hates competition.

Anon.

Was that really all there was to love? Darkness undone, a hand on your forehead. In the meantime all you could do was wait--tired, alone, the minutes as long or short as a lifetime--for the face in your dream to appear.

Eric Puchner

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Leslie Fiedler

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Edward Dahlberg

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

George Orwell