The obesity was noted but he recommended him as "fit to adopt"! Yay! What a relief. Now only mine to go on Tuesday before we can start the homestudy interviews.

Oh OH OH....and we may have found "the" name! DH didn't argue with this one! LOL

I love it! I was telling someone about Rani today and after being told her name said "Arani? That's beautiful!" And inside I'm like "That's it! :-)"

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.

You might just take Bertrand Russell on a beach holiday, as I once did; but Kant, never.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.

Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.

On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.

Many people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

During the first assault of passion as under a thunder stroke the sentiments of virtue may yield for a moment.