Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

Happiness... is not a destination it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by product of working playing loving and living.

Adolescence is the age of cosmic yearnings and private passions, of social concern and personal agony. It is the age of inconsistency and ambivalence.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Whatever insults my State insults me.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Insults are the business of the court.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Unfortunately, I'm used to the insults.

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

Spring Training is a fun time for me.

Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.

Since the first day I met youthat first glance at your eyesthe first time you told me you loved me my life was changed forever your love made me who I am todayyour presence in my life inspires me to be better every day I love you with all my senses.

I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.

I was born in the Northeast, and I have Midwestern parents.

Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite.

Qwiki is a game changer. The team has succeeded in creating an entirely new media format that will drastically improve the web experience.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

In Florida, we are focused on economic growth and not on things that divide us.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentine's Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.