Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

Oliver North

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

Wallace Shawn

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Josh Billings

Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, . One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic...

Jane Yolen

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Anne Rice

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Thomas J. Watson

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Necessity does everything well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Adam Sandler

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

Sylvester Stallone

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

General George Patton

People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.

Anton Chekhov