"The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications."

“...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.”

“Festus, you're such a great listener.”

“If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.”

Source : "Tatler Editor Kate Reardon defends speech to school girls on politeness and good grades" by Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. July 10, 2014.

“So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt." "Distracting, isn't it?”

“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.22, Transaction Publishers

“There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.”

Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48

“You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.”

“I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment.”