It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Alexander Dumas

When you choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith, you will merit the companionship of the Holy Spirit.

Thomas S. Monson

A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

Sasha Cohen

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.Tenzin Gyatso (1935- ), 14th Dailai Lama

Dalai Lama, Ocean of Wisdom; Gui

Science is all metaphor.

Timothy Leary

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forevcr free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things--I crawl under them--I climb on them--I am on the head of a galloping horse

Dziga Vertov, source indicated:

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist when asked if he is a Newtonian, or if he is a Pasteurian.There are truths so evident, so much a part of people's knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them.

Che Guevara

And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.

Cassandra Clare