Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

John Wooden

Now is the age of anxiety.

W. H. Auden

I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what God's got in store for you.

Paula Deen

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

Samuel Johnson

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

William Hazlitt

When I hear so much impatient and irritable complaint, so much readiness to replace what we have by guardians for us all, those supermen, evoked somewhere from the clouds, whom none have seen and none are ready to name, I lapse into a dream... I see children playing on the grass, ...they are restive and quarrelsome; they cannot agree to any common plan; their play annoys them; it goes poorly. And one says, let us make Jack the master; Jack knows all about it; Jack will tell us what each is to do and we shall all agree. But Jack is like all the rest; Helen is discontented with her part and Henry with his, and soon they fall again into their old state. No, the children must learn to play by themselves; there is no Jack the master. And in the end slowly and with infinite disappointment they do learn a little; they learn to forbear, to reckon with anther, accept a little where they wanted much, to live and let live, to yield when they must yield; perhaps, we may hope, not to take all they can. But the condition is that they shall be willing at least to listen to one another, to get the habit of pooling their wishes. Somehow or other they must do this, if the play is to go on; maybe it will not, but there is no Jack, in or out of the box, who can come to straighten the game.

Judge Learned Hand

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

V. S. Naipaul

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

Jim Trelease

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

Dee Snider