“All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them”

Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn’t work very well.

So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.

I’m too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom’s earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.

I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.