Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end.

The Americans have no sense of doom, none whatever. They do not recognize doom when they see it.

Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the first place.

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she stood outside, finishing an apple or nibbling sunflower seeds. She did not register his glances, his qu...

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just...Jean: A little brat who swears a lotMaes: An arrogant pipsqueakRoy: Useless. Just uselessAlphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that...Ed *starts...

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the...

My parents have always worried that I’d take Amy too personally — they always tell not to read too much into her, And yet I can’t fail to notice that whenever I screw something up, Amy does it right:...

Mrs. P.? Oh no. She’s the help. Bosnian, you know. Or is it Serbian? An absolute treasure, anyway. As I always say to Bel, if there’s one good thing to come out of all this fuss in the Balkans, it’s t...

Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within...

Leave him alone! Debbie shouted.Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, Mr Tiny replied.

If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable, he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. I’m doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far. I froze.

I'm trying... How could I put it? I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember. I stopped, then continued: so that I can remember without the pain killing meAnd the days were stac...

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mista...

I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I’ve never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.

I resolved to come right to the point. Hello, I said as coldly as possible, we've got to talk.Yes, Bob, he said quietly, what's on your mind? I shut my eyes for a moment, letting the raging frustratio...