First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Virginia Woolf

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

Ron Wyden

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!

John Keats

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

... in the working class, the process of building a family, of making a living for it, of nurturing and maintaining the individuals in it

Lillian Breslow Rubin, Worlds of

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

William H. Macy

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Alice Duer Miller

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Shimon Peres

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe