Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

John Lancaster Spalding, Aphoris

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Jane Austen

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Thomas Carlyle

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

George Herbert

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

Christopher Plummer

Each star had cost an effort. For each there had been planning, watching and anticipation. Each one recalled to me a place, a time, a season. Each one now has a personality. The stars, in short, had become my stars.

Leslie C. Peltier

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Hans Kung

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

Kyle Chandler

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Les Brown

Offered a job as book critic for magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his opinion about William Wordsworth. Replying perhaps too quickly that Wordsworth had been a Romantic poet, he had been brusquely informed by Chambers that there was no place for him at the magazine. Bellow had often wondered, he told us, what he ought to have said. I suggested that he might have got the job if he'd replied that Wordsworth was a once-revolutionary poet who later became a conservative and was denounced by Browning and others as a turncoat. This seemed to Bellow to be probably right. More interesting was the related question: What if he'd that job?

Christopher Hitchens

Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin

John Dryden, Absalom and Achitop

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe