The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

She went over to the mirror...glancing at herself sidelong, as women do who think they have lost their beauty; repudiating a complete reflection.

Rosamond Lehman, The Ballad and

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

Tom Lantos

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

John Clayton

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

Excellence prospers in the absence of excuses.

Lorii Myers

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

William Falconer

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Jesus Christ

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John L. Motley

A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

Pete Hoekstra