"For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition."

“There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.”

“That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless.”

Source : "Greg Walloch Comedian, Storyteller, and Eat Your Words Host". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.”

“A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.”

“What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.”

Source : Dennis Hastert during House Session, www.c-span.org. March 3, 2005.

“Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either. Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."”

“There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn -- noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful -- is the clearest exception of all. The unicorn was not conceived in fear. Our early sense of Nature's majestry and mysetery is revealed in him.”

Source : "The lore of the unicorn".

“Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.”