"God gave us family so that when we have a hard time praying for ourselves, we have others who will pray for us."

“I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.”

“A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated Mithras' primeval act. The initiate was baptized in its blood, partaking of its life-giving properties. It may be noted that this part of the ceremonial closely resembled the ritual of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother of Asia Minor, which had been brought to Rome three centuries before Christ.”

“Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.”

“War is failure of diplomacy.”

Source : "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

“I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority.”

“The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind.”

“My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.”

“The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C..”

Source : "Dot-coms turn declining small town into 'Silicon Village'" by Perri Peltz, cnn.com. December 30, 2000.