I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila

Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Rockwell Kent

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Of two evils, choose neither.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Jim DeMint

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Yogi Berra

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in raising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Next comes the realist phase (After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.).

Terry Pratchett

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Theodor Adorno

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

John Wesley

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Jacqueline KennedyOnassis