The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Paul Brunton

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

Ron Wyden

a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Mark Twain

It is easy to be brave from a distance.

American Indian Proverb, Omaha

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.

Cheryl Hines

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Alice Walker

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Boris Pasternak

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

C. JoyBell C.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

John Garamendi

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Jack Nicholson