The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

Sophistication is not science people, simplicity is.

Be the one for others who they can look up to

He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

President Trump has been very public about the fact that Aleppo is a humanitarian crisis that's been all but ignored by America for far long.

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.