Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a dragon, " or "Look at me, I'm a wizard, " or "Look at me, look at me, I'm the rain

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.

Walt Shaub is a true ethics hero for speaking out.

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.