When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

Iain Duncan Smith

Coffee, n. break fluid.

Anon.

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

A. B. Yehoshua

Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply: No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe, None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans.

Zoroaster

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Aung San Suu Kyi

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

Harper Lee

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

L.P. Hartley, The GoBetween, 195

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

Confidence is always overconfidence.

Robert Byrne

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow.

Proverb