Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

Margaret Thatcher

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

Channing Tatum

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Joseph Addison

In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.

Plato

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Gail Godwin

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.

Rodney Dangerfield

People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luther

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

Jenna Ushkowitz

You cannot discover new oceans until you are willing to lose sight of the shore.

Sharon Leaf

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

J. Donald Adams

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.

Rodney Dangerfield