Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.
But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
