Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.

Today's new age parenting guarantees you'll hear children screaming, whining, and begging for items and attention in an airplane, store or any other public place.

I'm so thankful that there are people willing to do that - to actually carry a child nine months for someone.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

I've got a long way to go. I'm not in a hurry.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.

Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.