Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

Jon Meacham

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

Paul D. Boyer

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

Iain Duncan Smith

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day.

Source Unknown

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Greta Scacchi

Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.

Ron Fournier

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Umberto Eco

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Don Marquis

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwab

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Henry Adams

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Owen C. Middleton