God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

David Dinkins

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Samuel Butler

Look, when that crowd gets to cheering, when we know they're with us, when we know they like us, we play better. A hell of a lot better!

Bill Carlin

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Dorothy Parker, In Writers at Wo

The simplest science book is over my head.

James Merrill

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

John Conyers

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

George Burns

Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

Michel de Montaigne, 1580