Commuter -- one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Elizabeth Edwards

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Gottfried Leibniz

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Ovid

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Richard Rorty

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Alan Dundes

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

James Madison

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

Isabelle Adjani

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions -- love, antipathy, charity, or malice -- and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

Milan Kundera

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

Robert Holman

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.

Alex Harris

The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a soul with, e.g., red-hot tweezers, because even fairly evil and corrupt souls were bright enough to realize that since they didn't have the concomitant body and nerve endings attached to them there was no real reason, other than force of habit, why they should suffer excruciating agony. So they didn't. Demons went on doing it anyway, because numb and mindless stupidity is part of what being a demon is all about, but since no one was suffering they didn't enjoy it much either and the whole thing was pointless. Centuries and centuries of pointlessness.

Terry Pratchett

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

Ellen Goodman