Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi). " Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
I feel like we are in a community of people who sign up for these values who try to maintain them and wherever they are not yet respected, to stand up for people's rights to enjoy them, as well. And this is worth every effort.
Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.
Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.
In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.