I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry Adams

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

Source Unknown

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

Jim Woodring

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

Caroline Kennedy

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98 but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

Simon Greenleaf

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

Adam Schiff

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

Samuel Beckett

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

William Trogdon

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Evan Davis

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

L.M. Montgomery

I try to act out of faith.

Marian Wright Edelman