Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Albert Einstein

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

David Adams Richards

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

Tiger Woods

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

Terry Pratchett

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

M. Tyndall hearing thys, ful of godly zeale, and not bearing that blasphemous saying, replied againe

John Foxe

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

William Shakespeare

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Lewis Thomas

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Gertrude Stein

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Barbara Walters