If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Josh Billings

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

James S. Coleman

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Jennifer Aniston

Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

Howie Carr

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

Jewel

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

James Ellroy

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Kary Mullis

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

St. Basil

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke