It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

Louis Claude de St. Martin

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

Brad Henry

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Howard Nemerov

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

John Foster Dulles

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

Richard Cobden

My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.

Ronnie Dunn

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

Saffron Burrows

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

Ben Vereen

The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.

William O. Douglas