There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

George Eliot, Adam Bede

Telling the truth can be a dirty job.

Francesca Marciano

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

Virginia Foxx

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

Samuel Beckett

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

George Bernard Shaw

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

Joe Baca

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Leon Trotsky

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

Louis Finkelstein

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Wangari Maathai

Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Christian Dior

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Delirium and dazzlement are in a relation which constitutes the essence of madness, exactly as truth and light, in their fundamental relation, constitute classical reason.

Michel Foucault