How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

Theodore Bikel

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

Giacomo Casanova

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Alexander Pope

Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.

Anon.

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Barbara Bush

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

J. Herman Randall

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Francis Bacon

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.

Christopher Hitchens

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Samuel Johnson, Letter to Bennet

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

Sarah Michelle Gellar