The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

measureless our pure living complete love whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow

E.E. Cummings

How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the earth, a little grain of sand in comparison with Sirius and others, and one's life span in comparison with billions on billions of ages. There is only one significance, you are a worker. The assignment is inscribed in your reason and heart and expressed clearly and comprehensibly by the best among the beings similar to you. The reward for doing the assignment is immediately within you. But what the significance of the assignment is or of its completion, that you are not given to know, nor do you need to know it. It is good enough as it is. What else could you desire?

Leo Tolstoy

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Emily Dickinson

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a place where time stands still....illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Martin Scorsese

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

Todd Gitlin

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Robert Fulghum

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus