How you make sense of your childhood experiences has a profound effect on how you parent your own children.
—Dan Siegel (American Psychiatrist)
We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice—however much we might desire it.
—Hubert Humphrey (American Head of State)
Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.
—Gelett Burgess (American Humorist)
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
—Georges Braque (French Painter)
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
—W. Clement Stone (American Self-help Guru)
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A father can only ride beside the bicycle or stand yelling directions while the child falls. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom.
—Sloan Wilson (American Author)
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
—Jose Ortega y. Gasset (Spanish Philosopher)
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
—Nelson DeMille (American Author)
Life is a constant negotiation between what one wants to be and what circumstances allow.
—Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemalan Poet)
Half the skill of being educated is learning what you can ignore.
—Kevin Kelly (American Editor)
No one is more unhappy than a peeping tom in a nudist camp.
—Luciano De Crescenzo (Italian Film Actor, Director, Engineer)