This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

Ralph Neas

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Mark Twain

I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.

Coy Bowles

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

Gary Numan

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Jerome Bruner

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Sir Walter Scott

All of us are crazy in one way or another.

Yiddish Proverb

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

Lord Nelson

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

Mike Singletary

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

William M. Bulger

No one should be astonished if in the following discussion of completely new princedoms and of the prince and of government, I bring up the noblest examples. Because, since men almost always walk in the paths beaten by others and carry on their affairs by imitatingeven though it is not possible to keep wholly in the paths of others or to attain the ability of those you imitatea prudent man will always choose to take paths beaten by great men and to imitate those who have been especially admirable, in order that if his ability does not reach theirs, at least it may offer some suggestion of it; and he will act like prudent archers, who, seeing that the mark they plan to hit is too far away and knowing what space can be covered by the power of their bows, take an aim much higher than their mark, not in order to reach with their arrows so great a height, but to be able, with the aid of so high an aim, to attain their purpose.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Sir Richard Steele