In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

Thomas Jefferson

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Raoul Vaneigem

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Socrates

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

Herbert A. Simon

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

James C. Humes

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Paul Theroux

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Frank Crane

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Martin Luther

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

Jennifer Carpenter

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.

Proverb

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Mary Kay Ash

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Ron Reagan