I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

William Harvey

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

James Baldwin

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

Amanda Beard

The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.

Greg Anderson

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Yiddish Proverb

But the truth is the highest consideration.

Dorothea Dix

Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.

Katherine Allred

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

William James

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

Jodi Picoult

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Lyn Nofziger

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Ambrose Bierce