Joseph Butler

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.