Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

Francois Truffaut

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Joan Borysenko

I bought a perfect second car ... a tow truck.

Rodney Dangerfield

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

William Ames

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

Judy Biggert

Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Zig Ziglar

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

Bob Taft

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

James Burgh

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

William J. H. Boetcker

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot