A silent mouth is melodious.

How red the rose that is the soldier

Wallace Stevens

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

Dave Matthews

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

S. M. Frazier

I never have been involved in politics.

Rick Warren

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

Ann Bancroft

My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its own. I can guide and hope and nudge my characters this and that way, but in the end, they become what they become. I don't always like what they become myself, but like a parent, there are times when I just don't know what to do about it. Other times when I'm so proud of them I could bust.

Laura Kinsale

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?

Sydney Harris

Hate will only eat the truth, then spit out a lie.

Anthony Liccione

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Ernest Hemingway

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

Source Unknown

The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible...Where there is no norm, nothing can be ridiculous, except for a brief moment of unbalanced provincialism in which we may laugh at the merely unfamiliar. Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the work.

C.S. Lewis

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Camille Paglia