We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Ferdinand De Saussure

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Gerry Adams

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

Warren Christopher

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Oscar Wilde

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Barbara Smith

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Karen Armstrong

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Larry David

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Rolf Hochhuth

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

Stephen King

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley