A measured response trumps a triggered reaction every time. Breathe first.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.