Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.

Mila Kunis

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Jan Schakowsky

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

David Grayson

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.

Mal Pancoast

You can't treat a car like a patient. A car needs love.

Gerhard Kocher

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

P. J. O'Rourke

In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary is a violation of this law - as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together and both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other only earns two thousand , or when lawyers and hussars, possessing no special qualifications, are appointed directors of banks with huge salaries - I can only conclude that their salaries are not fixed according to the law of supply and demand but simply by personal influence. And this is an abuse important in itself and having a deleterious effect on government service.

Leo Tolstoy

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Lenny Wilkens

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

George W. Bush

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.

Josh Radnor