As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Honore de Balzac

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Rod McKuen

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

George Orwell

Frailty, thy name is woman

William Shakespeare

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.

Mitch Miller

Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.

Greg Kinnear

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

Benito Mussolini

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

LouisFerdinand Celine

Doctor, as I believe you would not choose to tell any thing but the truth, you had better tell him, that I am dying as fast as my enemies, if I have any, could wish, and as easily and cheerfully as my best friends could desire.the him referred to is his friend Colonel Edmondstone

David Hume, Letter From Adam Smi

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

George Bernard Shaw

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Mick Jagger