My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

Jean Baudrillard

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Lafcadio Hearn

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.

Emma Donoghue

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks.

Source Unknown

Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same causehonor to him, only less than to him, who braves, for the common good, the storms of heaven and the storms of battle.

Abraham Lincoln

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

Mitt Romney

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Joseph Heller

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Henry Louis Gates