Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is hard to say that something is legitimate when whole portions of the country can't vote and doesn't vote."
-- Senator John Kerry, on Meet the Press, today.

"I have only just a minute,
Only sixty seconds in it.

"Forced upon me, can't refuse it.
Didn't seek it, didn't choose it.
But it's up to me
to use it.

"I must suffer if I lose it.
Give account if I abuse it.

"Just a tiny little minute,
but eternity is in it."

-- Anonymous

“I graduated from a special school. Auschwitz was the name. Four years I spent there... All my days were nights. Everything that was near and dear to me they took. There is only one thing worse than Auschwitz itself, and that is if the world forgets there was such a place.”
-- Henry Appel, Holocaust survivor, as quoted by Echt Emmy.

"Let me put this as bluntly as I can: There is nothing that the Europeans want to hear from George Bush, there is nothing that they will listen to from George Bush that will change their minds about him or the Iraq war or U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Bush is more widely and deeply disliked in Europe than any U.S. president in history. Some people here must have a good thing to say about him, but I haven't met them yet."
-- Thomas L. Friedman, Op-ed piece titled Read My Ears, The New York Times

"Anytime we lose lives, it is a sad moment."
-- President George W. Bush, on the topic of a Marine Corps transport helicopter crashing in Iraq earlier today, and killing all 31 US marines aboard, marking the biggest single day loss of US troops since the 2003 invasion.


Image from MSNBC.

"To be yourself in a world that tries night and day, to make you just like everybody else, is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight and never stop fighting."
-- e. e. cummings

“I’ll be right back.”
-- Johnny Carson, 1925-2004, with the line he once said should be his epitaph, as quoted by Richard Severo in The New York Times.


(Image from TV Rundown).

"Either they believe in me, trust me, and are willing to take the risk that I will deliver success, or they don't. It's that simple. There's no haggling. I don't negotiate."
-- Michael Bloomberg, in his autobiography Bloomberg by Bloomberg.


Image from The City Review.

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water".
-- Carl Reiner

"You are what you eat, what you think and what you read."
-- Anonymous

"Traditionally the president's inaugural committee pays for these expenses; this time around it's stiffing the District of Columbia with a 12 million dollar security bill -- just their way of saying 'thank you' to the community that went nine-to-one for the president's opponent."
-- Jon Stewart, regarding security expenses for Bush's second inauguration, today.


Image from MTR.

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
-- Joseph Campbell

"You grab hold of one of those jobs, you don't want to let go."
-- Ruth Warrick, 1916-2005, in an obituary in the The New York Times by David Carr.


(Image from Gone Movies).

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.


Image from CNN.

"As a personal fitness trainer, I have to leave the house at 5:30 a.m. to make my early-morning appointments. To get out the door more quickly, I have dedicated certain parts of my shelves to specific days of the week. When I remove things from my backpack at night, I place each item on the appropriate shelf (shown). If I won’t be seeing Monday’s client again until Thursday, her chart and equipment are placed in Thursday’s section. My wallet, transit card, and cell phone have a designated spot. I even have a “take care of me” bag, which contains sample-size cosmetics like hand lotion that I can apply during downtime or on the morning train."
--­ Michelle Adams, 46, Rahway, New Jersey in Real Simple.

"My husband, Steve, sets up his breakfast cereal before he goes to bed. He measures out water and kasha next to the stove so when he wakes up, all he has to do is dump the ingredients into the pot and light the flame. Even though it doesn’t take long to set up, it’s still one less thing he has to think about at 5:30, when he’s getting ready to leave the house".
­Erika Bleiberg, 44, Glen Ridge, New Jersey in Real Simple.

"Each night I write down no more than five things I want to accomplish the next day. This takes discipline, because it seems like I should be able to do so much more, but I know myself and how I work. And I know that I’ll be fielding phone calls and e-mails all day long. It’s psychological: If I get five out of 10 things done, I just get frustrated. But if I get five out of five, I’m batting a thousand."
— Tera Leigh, 39, Wrightwood, California in Real Simple.

"I am very sorry if I have caused any offense or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologize"
-- Prince Harry, in a statement.

"Tonight eat only half the dessert. And then go out and walk around the block. And if you are going to watch television get down and do 10 push-ups and five sit-ups."
-- Tommy Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, on new diet guidelines released yesterday.