Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?
It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.
Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Treat everyone you meet as though they are the most important person you'll meet that day.
Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life.
Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us.
The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.
Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
Homosexuals are rarely monogamous and have as many as 300 to 1,000 sexual partners over the course of a lifetime. … [T]he risk of sexual abuse in a homosexual household is much greater than in a heterosexual household.
Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be the difference between him and a military government? Very little. I read his remarks on the effectiveness of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Well, yes. But then the AKP would have to ban all other political parties, close down all critical newspapers, burn the books critical of the regime and gas the Kurds to death. . . the final solution of the Kurdish 'problem. ' Somehow I don't think he is about to do that.
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A. D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.