"The Rose is without 'why'â€”she blooms because she blooms."

-- Angelus Silesius

“Prayer is all-powerful. Let us use it to bring peace to the Middle East and peace to the world.”
“The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.”

Source : John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag
“I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.”
“You shouldn't be eating anything that takes six minutes to microwave.”

Source : Adam Carolla (2010). “In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks”, p.208, Crown Archetype
“Could we forbear dispute, and practice love,We should agree as angels do above.Where love presides, not vice alone does findNo entrance there, hut virtues stay behind:Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner trainOf mortal virtues, at the door remain.Love only enters as a native there,For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.”
“The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.”
“Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.”
“St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.”

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