The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Ernest Hemingway

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

Sydney J. Harris

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Bob Hope

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Charles Dickens

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression, that may be

Benjamin Franklin

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

David Hilbert

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

Maggie Stiefvater

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

Source Unknown

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

Lester B. Pearson

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

Woody Allen