Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.