What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?

Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

By losing my external things, I found myself. I found something very powerful, very permanent, that I could have with me all the time.

You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true.