As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

Source Unknown

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Italian Proverb

There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst

Thomas Paine

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

George Santayana

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Richard Deupree

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Ernest Holmes

It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Publilius Syrus

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

Kristin Kreuk

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Barbara Sher

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

Voltaire

When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.

M. Night Shyamalan

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Benjamin Haydon