It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.

Anon.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1

Bible

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Oprah Winfrey

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

Source Unknown

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Benjamin Netanyahu

You don't manifest dreams without taking chances.

Stephen Richards

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own - for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling, episode The Monster

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Robert Cecil

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

Patricia Heaton

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

Max Cannon

What can that faith do for him in his need? It teaches him to bear adversity With patience that may shame a better creed.

Robert Ferguson, The Saracen

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut