Doorman -- a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

But then the need of being loved, the strongest need... in poor Maggie's nature, began to wrestle with her pride and soon threw it.

George Eliot

I have a map of the United States...actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. I also have a fullsize map of the world. I hardly ever unroll it.

Steven Wright

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Henry David Thoreau

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Ambrose Bierce

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Thomas Carlyle

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Michel de Montaigne

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

Christopher Durang

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Theodore Bikel

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

Terry Pratchett

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

George Bernard Shaw