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- I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.
- Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.
- Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
- Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Honesty: the most important thing in life. Unless you really know how to fake it, you'll never make it.
- Bernard Rosenberg
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