One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.

Neil Gaiman

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

Michael Stuhlbarg

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Ray Kroc

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

Polly Toynbee

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Rodney Dangerfield

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

Debbie Stabenow

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Ronald Reagan

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

Socrates

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.Often attributed to Mark Twain; Quoted in Mark Twain, Autobiography, ch. 29, (1924), his exact words were:

Benjamin Disraeli

I fear the vermin that shall undermine

Edwin Markham