If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become better.

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

Jay Leno

In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are.

Louis Cassels

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus

I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age.

Steven Wright

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Orson Scott Card

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

William Dean Howells

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

Albert Einstein

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

Tori Amos

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

Source Unknown

In peace we can make many of them ignore good and evil entirely; in danger, the issue is forced upon them in a guise to which even we cannot blind them. There is here a cruel dilemma before us. If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces (for He permits it to produce) a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor.This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy's motives for creating a dangerous world-a world in which moral issues really come to the point. He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yieldsto danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.(the enemy referred to is God)

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letter

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus