We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel-

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

Doug Coupland

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Charles Kuralt

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

Failure's a natural part of life.

John Malkovich

A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.

Marilyn Monroe, As quoted in Ms.

With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.

Samuel Johnson

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

Kurt Vonnegut

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

Bob Graham

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

William Cowper