Our life is like a land journey: too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view - and feel exalted - and your eyes are full of happy tears - and you want to sing - and you wish you had wings! And then - you can't stay there, but you must continue your journey - you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carlos Castaneda

We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond.

Adrienne C. Moore

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

Eric Liu

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.

Thomas Menino

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

Clive Owen

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Kurt Vonnegut

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Pa

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Johann von Goethe

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

Conrad Black

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

Jodi Picoult