a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

The first casualty in every war is truth.

It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

No sauce equals appetite.

It is a fact, however, that there is no rest for the wicked.

Life is exceedingly great.

Books are people, '' smiled Miss Marks. ''In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.

They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!

Why do I keep thinking of her alluva sudden?! Especially when the only time my face gets red and my heart starts puonding...is when I see him! -Syaoran Li

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

A little showbiz never hurt anyone.

Love amazes, but it does not surprise.