“Just throw it all and live like there's no tomorrow.”

“The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be preprogrammed to resist some parental manipulation while being open to other forms. When the parent imposes an arbitrary system of reinforcement (punishment and reward) in order to manipulate the offspring to act against its own best interests, selection will favor offspring that resist such schedules of reinforcement.”

“The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.”

“It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring have eyes because their parents' eyes did see well (good, ordinary, forward causation).”

“Just throw it all and live like there's no tomorrow.”

“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”

“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.”

“The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.”

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”