There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator from New York is surely that she is a known quantity who has already been in the White House purely as the result of a relationship with a man, and not at all a quixotic outsider who represents the aspirations of an 'out' group, let alone a whole sex or gender.

Christopher Hitchens

It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so.

Steve Maraboli

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.

Samuel Johnson

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Djuna Barnes

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Sandra Day O'Connor

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de la Bruyere

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Sir Winston Churchill

If you think only of yourself, if you forget the rights and well-being of others, or, worse still, if you exploit others, ultimately you will lose. You will have no friends who will show concern for your well-being. Moreover, if a tragedy befalls you, instead of feeling concerned, others might even secretly rejoice. By contrast, if an individual is compassionate and altruistic, and has the interests of others in mind, then irrespective of whether that person knows a lot of people, wherever that person moves, he or she will immediately make friends. And when that person faces a tragedy, there will be plenty of people who will come to help.

Dalai Lama, from The Dalai Lama'

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

Ben Kingsley

Next to the prosperity of a good person, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal.

Source Unknown

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Barry Mann

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

Wellington Mara