That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.
In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.
Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.
It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.
I'd gone from being a normal HR worker from Hull to being recognised in the street, being on TV. As much as it was exciting, thrilling, and a big, huge adrenaline rush.
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.
Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.
In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.