The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

L.M. Montgomery

You gotta be hungry!

Les Brown

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

Proverb

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Pam Brown

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

Sam Trammell

God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.

Paul Scherer

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Edward Young

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Stephen King

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

Lillian Breslow Rubin, Women of