When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

Lucy Grealy

I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

Robert Gibbs

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

May Sarton

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

John Malkovich

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Alexander Pope

I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.

Woodrow Wilson

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

Albert Brooks

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Andre Malraux, The Voices of Sil

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

William Moulton Marston

?The Peace Panda Says: While you meditate on your life...pray for world harmony

Timothy Pina