I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Bishop Robert South

They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family.

Jennie Garth

History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see, and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through to avoid.

Livy

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

Thomas Fuller

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Amos Bronson Alcott

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Barbara Bush

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Yumus Emre

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

Albert Finney

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Anne Frank

Eulogies are like babies. They're more pleasurable to create than to deliver.

Bob Blazich

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

Albert Einstein