The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you know. It's bottling things up that makes them get on your nerves.

It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!

Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel uncomfortable about it and wish they hadn't! It's only human nature.

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.

For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.