...as if prayers ever put out a fire.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven't given you permission to quit.

I knew exactly how he felt because I had walked in his shoes, wary and distrustful, unable to believe anybody could care about me without asking for something in return.

--anger because pain would drown me without the protective shell.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

You are unique in the world, a friend like no other. It’s so amazing that we have so much in common so your happiness is also mine.

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.

God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.

And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.