Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

Orson Scott Card

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

Geraldine Brooks

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

George Pataki

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

John Green

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Billy Graham

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

J.K. Rowling

Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all.

Christopher Leach

Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This completes the already strong case for allowing her to pass the rest of her natural life span as a private citizen.

Christopher Hitchens

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Umberto Eco

There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

Debra Winger

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Georges Bernanos