Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Henry David Thoreau

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God.

Nancy Gibbs, Time, Sept. 12, 200

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

Thomas Friedman

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.

Vance Havner

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

Louisa May Alcott

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Samuel Foote

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.

Howard Stern

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Jack Welch

In order to be just, you should make a self-sacrifice, be unjust to yourself.

Leo Tolstoy

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The truth stinks. Thus it's covered.

Toba Beta