Better he learns now that if you mess with people, you might get messed with in return.

Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.

It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.

No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person

Megan could have kissed him. If there weren't a million obstacles, both physical and psychological, in her way, of course.

Observation #8: Boys are icky. Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a haz-mat team. Seriously.

Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic.

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

And then what's the whole point if you're harsh to those who love you and soft to those who don't care...

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Slaves. though we be enrolled Minds are never to be sold.

Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.