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.

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.

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

My strengths propel me and my weaknesses pursue me.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.

I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.

President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.

When you get the message, hang up the phone.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.