It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Corazon Aquino

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Francis Parkman

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Kahlil Gibran

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

Cal Thomas

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers (Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest). Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers (Of course Some People like the city best)!

Arthur Guiterman

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

John Howard

It's natural. Nature is dark and light, birth and death. Everything and its opposite. And in nature there are predators and prey. The hunters and the hunted. The heartbreakers and the heartbroken. The beautiful thing is that Nature lets us choose which we want to be, most people never make the choice though because they don't even know they have it.

Lynn Weingarten

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Norman Spinrad

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

Harvey Weinstein