"Every group spends more when its income grows."

“Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.”

“In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.”

“This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.”

“I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.”

“Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”

Source : Josef Pieper (1998). “Leisure, the Basis of Culture”, St Augustine PressInc

“We believe each other into being.”

Source : "Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. December 9, 2015.

“Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.”

“I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!”