What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Joy doubles your faith, strength triples your might, and love quadruples your power.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.