Human beings used to be molecules which could do many, many different sorts of dances, or decline to dance at all --as they pleased. My mother could do the waltz, the tango, the rumba....

Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it until it purrs.

Teresa Sue McAdams

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Don Shula

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Augusta Ward

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

Henry Harland

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Walter Benjamin

This war is not about slavery.

Robert E. Lee

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Dorothy Dix

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

C.S. Lewis

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

George W. Bush, Address to a Joi

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer