I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

Gene Simmons

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Mahatma Gandhi

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

Diane Kruger

It isn't easy, it does take an incredible amount of discipline, you don't just write just when you feel like it or you're not going to build up much of a body of work. Inspiration comes to you while you're writing rather than before....For me the discipline of writing and the discipline of prayer are identical, in that I have to let myself be got out of the way because that's not a do-it-yourself activity, and listen....When you write, don't think, write. You think before, you think after, you don't think during. When I'm praying, when I'm truly praying, I'm not thinking, I'm not speaking, I'm shutting up, so perhaps if God has something to say I can hear it. So writing too is an act of listening, listening to what has to be said.

Madeleine L'Engle, Perkins Lectu

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

Stefan Banach

He that seeks trouble never misses.

English Proverb

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Aldous Huxley

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

George Eliot

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Friedrich Schiller

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Michel de Montaigne