The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Judith Wright

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Jim Ryun

Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Brett Favre

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

Jack Nicholson

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.

Madeleine L'Engle

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.

Dean Koontz

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Art is born of humiliation.

W. H. Auden

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Victor Hugo