It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.

Mary Todd Lincoln

There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.

Jonathan Raban

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

Susan Sontag

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

John Tyler

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

E. B. White

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Edward R. Murrow

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

Janette Rallison

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Bob Etheridge

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Richard M. Nixon