I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Susan Sontag

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

William Hedgcock Webster

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

Sadi Gulistan

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Luis Bunuel

Your opinion is not my reality.

Steve Maraboli

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

Mitt Romney

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

David Korten, When corporations

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

Tracy Chapman

Be positive and laugh at everything.

Alexandra Roach

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Samuel Butler