When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.

Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love. In one respect they're alike. They're both wonderful as long as they last.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.

I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.

Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.

I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.

Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.

The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

Advertising is brilliant. It's an industry that spends billions and billions of dollars to get you to react the way it wants you to react.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

The Democrats need to govern for all Americans as well as deliver for their core constituencies. It will be difficult for them to do both.

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.

One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still alive, I would congratulate her.

The Kurds will not be allowed to have an independent country because Turkey wouldn't stand for it; they have their own Kurdish population.

Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.

It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.

I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.

It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is just torturing yourself.

Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

'Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.

As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.

Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream

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