Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Bruce Lee

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Vincent Van Gogh

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

George W. Bush

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

James Thomson

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Benjamin Franklin

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Andre Maurois

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

William Ellery Channing

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Talcott Parsons

Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

Garrett Morris

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Neville Kenneth Wran

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

Eleanor Bron