Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

William Falconer

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.

Abraham Zapruder

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Samuel Butler

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Tom Baker

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?

Amy Poehler

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Mark Strand

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Bo Gritz

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Jeff Goodell

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

Penelope Cruz

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Ernest Hemingway

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

David Chambless