"Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail."

“I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about.”

“A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!”

“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.”

Source : Jack Kevorkian (1991). “Prescription--medicide: the goodness of planned death”

“In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.”

“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”

“I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.”

“The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1916). “Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children”

“Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.”