To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~Carl Sagan
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ~Cicero
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation
Hot Topic Quotations: August 2002
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. ~Anne Sexton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton
Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. ~Thomas A. Bailey
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. ~Julia Sorel (Rosalyn Drexler), See How She Runs, 1978
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942
It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting. ~Lemony Snicket
I'm always top banana in the shock department. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more. ~George Bernard Shaw
I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. ~Terri Guillemets
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Working without safety is a dead-end job. ~Author Unknown
If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ~Kin Hubbard
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. ~Herbert J. Muller
Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. ~Author Unknown
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H