I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

George Bernard Shaw

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

Rosenstock Huessy

Respect can only be given to those who have earned it by working for it.

Habeeb Akande

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

Bonnie Raitt

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Source Unknown

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

Susan George

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.

James A. Baldwin

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Scott Reed

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Logan Pearsall Smith

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.

Timothy Geithner