Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him

Martin Luther King Jr.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Arthur Erickson

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Horace Greeley

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth.

American Indian Proverb, Shenand

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Conan O'Brien

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

April Winchell

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

A. E. van Vogt

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.

Gordon Strachan