Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us or exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Paul Ambroise Valery

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Cal Thomas

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Duras

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

Jonathan Sacks

I no longer ask the young man's question: How far will I go? My questions are now those of the mature person: When it is over, what will my life have been about? First as Martin Buber taught, life is meeting. We come alive only when we relate to others. Secondly, we are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great dramatic leap in results. Finally, we are here to finish god's labors. One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly two thousand years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.

Patricia Nell Warren

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Michael Beschloss

When you stop being afraid you feel good

Spencer Johnson

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

Love entered in my heart one dayA sad, unwelcome guest.But when it begged that it might stayI let it stay and restIt broke my nights with sorrowingIt filled my heart with fearsAnd, when my soul was prone to sing,It filled my eyes with tears.But...now that it has gone its way,I miss the dear ole pain.And, sometimes, in the night I prayThat Love might come again.

J. California Cooper

Politics ruins the character.

Otto von Bismarck

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Henry Ward Beecher