All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

The truth is that all examples of child protection and parental care, and all associated bodily organs... are examples of the working in nature of the kin-selection principle.

Richard Dawkins

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

Alice Meynell

I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.

Rodney Dangerfield

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

Ted Cruz

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.

Mark Hyman

The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you the dawn is coming.

Harvey Dent

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Anna Paquin

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

George Orwell

Regardless of which candidate each of us supported as individuals, the only way to move forward is to move forward together.

Tim Cook

Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too tough . . . I lack patience. I probably got on guys a little too hard, with the wrong tone of voice.

Frank Robinson, In Sports magazi