Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Plautus

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

Barbara Corcoran

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sarah Dessen

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.

Robertson Davies

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

Greg Louganis

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

Marcy Kaptur

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

Mahatma Gandhi

They tell me, Lord, that when I seemTo be in speech with you.Since but one voice is heard, it

C.S. Lewis

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Emily Greene Balch

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

Stephen King