On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.