Periodontal bacteria can easily slip into the bloodstream and cause infection elsewhere in the body.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

A great life starts and steadies with a great mind that is open to new ideas, fierce in defense of truth, and always eager to learn.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Even [Bill] Clinton ran on my program of "workfare instead of welfare." Of which I was the first American politician, starting in 1989, who brought that up. And that helped him get elected.

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

There is no substitute for experience

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.