Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.

Elizabeth Kostova

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Johannes A. Gaertner

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Samuel Johnson

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.

Proverb

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Corita Kent

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Ahmet Zappa

My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober.

G. K. Chesterton

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Victor Hugo

Life without a goal is pointless while life with too much ambitions will ruin your life.

Vinh Khanh Huynh

Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.

Plato