American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

And so we take a holiday, a vacation, to gain release from this bondage for a space, to stand back from the rush of things and breathe again. But a holiday is a respite, not a cure. The more we need holidays, the more certain it is that the disease has conquered us and not we it. More and more holidays just to get away from it all is a sure sign of a decaying civilization; it was one of the most obvious marks of the breakdown of the Roman empire. It is a symptom that we haven't learned how to live so as to re-create ourselves in our work instead of being sapped by it. A car should always be charging its battery as it runs. If it simply uses up without putting back, it has to go into dock to be recharged. It is not a sign that we are running particularly well if we are constantly needing to go into dock.

Evelyn Underhill, The Mastery of

The term HDTV (high definition television) was coined to describe the possibility of getting pretty pictures. But what

Reed E. Hunt

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Danny DeVito

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Mahatma Gandhi

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

Billy Sherwood

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

Robert Stack

Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

Marsha Blackburn

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Edsger Dijkstra

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel, recorded in Pirkei

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

George Bernard Shaw

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford