I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

James Thurber

If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional individuals or identified with brilliance. In ordinary life creativity means making something for the soul out of every experience.

Thomas Moore, Care Of The Soul

also found in Daily Reflections for the day October 7

Bill Wilson, Twelve Steps and Tw

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Oscar Wilde

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Samuel Johnson

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

Donna Shalala

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Reed Hastings

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Michelle Branch

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. All have been, or at least all have believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of some one they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please.

Jane Austen

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

Thomas Fuller

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Norman Mailer

She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes...

George Gordon Byron