Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.   (Robert J. Sawyer)

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.   (Kathleen Casey Theisen)

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.   (Heraclitus)

American can do better, and help is on the way.   (John Kerry)

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.   (Paul Valery)

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.   (Michel de Montaigne)

God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to of   (Real Live Preacher)

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.   (Garry Trudeau)

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries!   (Christopher Marlowe)

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.   (W. H. Auden)