History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase

The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark, " for M.L. Smoker)

Love is something worth suffering for...

Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

Love works in mysterious ways,

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

A goal is a planned event

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.