Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!

Ambrose Bierce

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Barbara Mikulski

Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.

Al Michaels

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

Rob Sheffield

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.N.B.: Eat, Drink and be merry. See also Luke 12:19

Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:7

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

Billy Sunday

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.

Benjamin Franklin

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Charles de Montesquieu

You are what you are because it's what you have chosen to be. If you're unhappy, YOU MUST CHANGE FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

Steve Maraboli

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Kamisese Mara

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

John Dryden