"By paying attention to our dogs, we can become more aware of how we're coming across to others. Who has not had the experience of being impatient with our dog and then noticing the response of sadness and hurt inscribed over his body?"

— The Monks of New Skete (Let Dogs Be Dogs)

"For starters, when it comes to the topic of generosity, there are three kinds of people in the world: Selfish Stupid Burden on others"

— Scott Adams (How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big)

"When your son is impatient, reflect on your own impatience and try to help your son by showing him you can control yourself."

— Russ Roberts (How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life)

"If we are honest, that is the greatest joy of parenting: finding someone who has it worse than you. Yes, Rob got woken up every morning"

— Rob Beckett (Parenting Hell)

"The researchers concluded that tastes are formed early, and it is therefore important to expose children to a variety of foods early in life."

— Emily Oster (Cribsheet)

"Gender-fluid? Kids are fluid about everything. If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate; thank God nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery."

— Bill Maher (What This Comedian Said Will Shock You)

"She's smart; where she goes wrong is in assuming that everybody else is stupid."

— K.J. Parker (Saevus Corax Captures the Castle)

"When one customer wrongs you, remember the thousands that did not."

— Derek Sivers (Anything You Want)

"Very important senior grug say 'this too complicated and confuse to me'"

— Carson Gross (The Grug Brained Developer)

"But despite its initial restraint, the Association soon followed the typical path of reformers and slipped into overzealous styling. To fill the SRA's quarterly meetings, members continually sought new topics for discussion. To fill its bulletins, they determined to show continual progress. So, every three months the SRA added new rules, new letters, new diacritic marks, in their pursuit to capture every nuanced shade of sound, forever chasing that dream of the perfect alphabet."

— Gabe Henry (Enough Is Enuf)

"There's an old saying that a child not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. I'd update it to say the child not sufficiently entertained by the village will burn it down for the spectacle."

— Jason Pargin (I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom)

"How do we bridge the partisan divide?" I'll tell you how: shut the fuck up. Stop talking politics to each other all the time. Especially on Facebook, which used to be an innocuous place to humblebrag and show cat videos, and now it's a cauldron of political hatred. It used to be a platform to gain friends; now it's more about rooting them out."

— Bill Maher (What This Comedian Said Will Shock You)