The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

Not even God can change the past.

God is just a name for our wonder.

Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!

Adversity tests the strength of endurance.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

There's nowhere I won't go. As long as it's horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.