3901) "How come I am completely unable to operate the doors of other people's apartments? You know, when you go to leave and you turn the knob that you're not supposed to touch and then turn the other knob the wrong way and then you lock yourself in even more and you can't remember which way you turned what and you end up yanking helplessly at the door until your friend mercifully comes to your rescue and lets you out."-Aaron Karo
3902) "The 'unplug decision' is one of the more difficult decisions that you must make in your life. This occurs when you crash at a friend's place and you have to decide which of his appliances you are going to unplug because you need to charge your phone and all of the outlets are full. I tend to look for something that doesn't need resetting or recalibration. Definitely stay away from VCRs and alarm clocks. Halogen lights and toasters are always a popular choice. Of course, once you choose your victim you need to play that little game where you try to trace the plug from the back of the appliance all the way to the surge protector. This usually involves diving behind entertainment centers and doing the 'wiggle test' where you shake the plug from the top and then see which one moves at the bottom. These are all technical terms of course."-Aaron Karo
3903) "The key to eating a black and white cookie, Elaine, is you want to get some black and some white in each bite. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate. And yet, still, somehow racial harmony eludes us. If people could only look to the cookie all our problems would be solved."-Jerry Seinfeld on "Seinfeld"
3904) "One must never enter into the relation of marriage. Husband and wife promise to love one another for eternity. This is all very fine, but it does not mean very much....If, instead of promising forever, the parties would say: until Easter, or until May-day comes, there might be some meaning in what they say; for then they would have said something definite, and also something they might be able to keep."-Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or volume I
3905) "I think when you're older, what gets hard is that you forget how to take things as they come. And sometimes, the things that do come, are more than anyone should have to take."-"Taken"
3906) "When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. When things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold onto that faith. It's hard not to wonder whose reasons these things happen for."-"Taken"
3907) "You know in cartoons, when someone can run off a cliff, and they're fine, they don't fall until they look down? My mom always said that was the secret of life: never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about not looking. It's about not ever realizing that you're in the middle of the air, and you don't know how to fly."-"Taken"
3908) "Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
3909) "But we loved with a love that was more than love."-Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"
3910) "We are alone, but together. And I imagine that's how it is for every two people thrown together by life and time. There is hurt. And there is comfort. And there is someone else beside you that makes you laugh and cry, and looks at things differently than you do."
3911) "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"
3912) "How can I ever find that permanence, that continuity with past and future, that communication with other human beings that I crave?" -Sylvia Plath
3913) "When you're not sure you trust a person any more you start wishing they'd do something really, really wrong, just so you can be right about them."-Angela on "My So-Called Life"
3914) "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
3915) "I know what it's like to feel alone. And, that's why I stay alone, because I never want to feel alone again."
3916) "Every year just whizzes by, and I keep having to remind myself not to worry and to go out and do whatever I want. Stay up late, go to that movie, eat that cheeseburger, go on that trip—because that's all that matters. That's what you're going to remember, not sitting around fucking moping and questioning stuff all the time. But that's so hard to live by, isn't it?"-Liv Tyler, Jane
3917) "Do you know what I mean about how when you stop and talk to people long enough—other than just saying, 'Hi, how are you?'—if you actually ask people a little more, they'll tell you, because no one ever asks them?"-Liv Tyler, Jane
3918) "[My boyfriend] and I both say 'I _could_ live without you, but I don't want to.' Being with him is like having icing on the cake of my life. Being with [my ex] was like, the relationship WAS the cake and I couldn't be whole because the relationship was consuming."-Julie Goldman
3919) "To me, the real difficulty is that people don't recognize how much of their own need goes into their response to what they see. It's funny when people say things like, 'People can do what they want — I just don't think they should be out in the street looking that weird.' I think, 'Okay, when we ban men with toupees, then we can tell transsexuals to stay home. When we say, 'No four-hundred-pound ladies in pleather miniskirts,' then we can tell crossdressers to stay home.'"-Amy Bloom, Nerve.com
3920) "Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared."-Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"
3921) "One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me."-Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey"
3922) "Apostrophes are a lot like pubic hair: appreciated and helpful when placed correctly, surprising and distressing when found somewhere unexpected. An apostrophe in the word 'gets' is akin to finding a patch of curly hair on the inside of your knee."-Jos Claerbout
3923) "Ever notice that guys like to know the 'source' of traffic? It's not enough to be stuck in traffic, we need to figure out its origins. 'Wow, this is definitely Giants Stadium traffic.' 'No dude, it's rush hour.' 'I think it's holiday shopping traffic.' 'Must be an accident.' 'Should we listen to the traffic report on the radio?' 'Nah, it's more fun to argue about it.'"-Aaron Karo
3924) "[The State of the Union Address] is like a spinning class...up and down, up and down!"-Jen Tosti, January 28, 2003
3925) "In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."-Lawrence Summers, Harvard president
3926) "If we don't turn around now, we just may get where we're going."-American Indian saying
3927) "...New York is a city where you can live among millions of people without seeing any of them."-Oriana Fallaci, The New York Times Magazine
3928) "...my mother reminded me that I had known this would happen, that I shouldn't get so upset—as if foreknowledge of an event could somehow buffer you from its reverberations."-Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face
3929) "oh baby i said/ it's all in our hands/ got to learn to respect/ what we don't understand/ we are fortunate ones/ fortunate ones/ i swear"-Amy Ray, "Fugitive"
3930) "...I love when the dentist asks you to move your mouth and then commends you for doing it. He'll be like, 'Just open your mouth a little wider. Excellent!' I always just want to say, 'Well, you know, I've been practicing at home.'"-Aaron Karo
3931) "It was the beginning of January, if I counted correctly/ It was the end of a party or maybe strong wishes/ Ruth or Moshe, which one had the idea?/ Anyway, I won the race amongst thousands/ We were all winners, even the last of the last/ For once, we who were born were the best/ Inside my mother's womb, which helps to grow well/ And then I saw the light and so I came out/ And I said/ Good idea/ There were sun, smells, and rain/ Each day a new awakening, each day a new night/ Roads and motorcycle riders, and rugby matches/ Spaghetti, Frederic Dard and Johnny Winter too/ They told me it's just one spark before obscurity/ Just a passage, a rainbow, a strange absurdity/ Brothers, tenders, treasures to be sought/ Dizziness to take and understand, and women to caress/ I said to myself/ Good idea/ And then you disembark by opening my eyes wide/ And flows of colors burst and the beautiful seems more beautiful/ And nothing really changes but everything is different/ Just like how a meal changes when we eat it alone or when we share it with others/ I was wandering around; night had fallen/ With my bag and my guitar, I was a bit tired/ Everything was deserted; where could I quench my thirst?/ And then I saw the light and I found you all/ Good idea"–Jean-Jacque Goldman, "Bonne idée (Good Idea)", translated from French by Heather Glick
3932) "After every war/ someone has to clean up./ Things won't/ straighten themselves up, after all./ Someone has to push the rubble/ to the side of the road,/ so the corpse-filled wagons/ can pass."-Wislawa Szymborska, "The End and the Beginning"
3933) "Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person [whom we're afraid to talk to]. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us."-Fred Rogers, The New York Times
3934) "When these things [new technologies such as Wi-Fi] work at all, I think it's a miracle, and I'm not being facetious. The problem is that we've now come to rely [on things being much faster and more foolproof than the technology can sustain in its initial phases] and we get angry immediately when it doesn't work."-Joe Brancatelli, The New York Times
3935) "On the first spring-like day in New York, I saw an older couple standing in front of a small restaurant on Second Avenue. The woman kept peering in the window and finally said to the man, 'It's so narrow.' Whereupon the man replied: 'What are you worried about? You just lost a lot of weight.'"-Carol Rand
3936) "it took me too long to realize/ that I don't take good pictures/ cuz I have the kind of beauty/ that moves"-Ani DiFranco, "Evolve"
3937) "life is a b movie/ it's stupid and it's strange/ a directionless story/ and the dialogue is lame/ but in the he said she said/ sometimes there's some poetry/ if you turn your back long enough/ and let it happen naturally"-Ani Difranco, "Hell Yeah"
3938) "When will you understand that being normal isn't necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."-"Practical Magic"
3939) "Oh Goddess, can I call you God for short, or is that too butch for you?"-Anonymous graffiti
3940) "Living in New York, most weekend nights are dedicated to celebrating people's birthdays. Let's face it, there are about six people that you can really get excited about their birthday and the rest of the people you just need to 'make an appearance' at their party to perpetuate the thinly veiled fabrication that you actually care."-Aaron Karo
3941) "I dread the moment when I get in the elevator of my apartment and press my floor but then another guy jumps in the elevator at the last moment and goes to press his floor, only to realize that it's already pressed. Am I obligated to introduce myself to him because he lives on my floor? Do we really need to make idle conversation about the state of the building's air conditioning system? Must I say 'hey' accompanied by a subtle head nod every time I see him in the lobby thereafter? Sometimes I wish I lived in a walk-up."-Aaron Karo
3942) "I love the game of trying to guess who is calling you when an unfamiliar number comes up on caller ID. You'll be sitting around with your buddies and all of a sudden your cell phone rings and you're like, 'Who is this? Area code 617? Where's that?' Then someone yells out 'Miami!' 'Houston!' 'San Diego?' 'No dog, that's Boston!' 'Boston? Who do I know in Boston? Who could possibly be calling me from Boston? Should I pick it up?' 'No, let it go to voicemail.' 'Boston, Boston...shit, it stopped ringing.' 'Who was it?' 'They didn't leave a message.' 'I guess we'll never know.'"-Aaron Karo
3943) "Do you have to mock my disability right in front of me? That's like going to Helen Keller, 'Hey, isn't that a beautiful sunrise. . . oh wait, you can't hear me!'"-Michael Holman
3944) "For most human beings, life, when reduced to its essence, is a never-ending search for respect. First and most important, self-respect, then the respect of others. There are many ways to achieve respect but none more certain and rewarding than in service to others.... What you will find is that fulfillment in life will come, not from acquiring things, not from leisure, not from self-indulgence. Real fulfillment in your life will come from striving with all of your physical and spiritual might for a worthwhile objective that helps others and is larger than your self-interest. I hope that each of you is fortunate enough to find such an objective in your life."-George J. Mitchell, Former United States senator, Susquehanna University commencement speech
3945) The better you care for your mind and body, the better you can serve your neighbor and care for your family. And you owe them that service. Some of your plans won't work out. Some of your assumptions will be wrong. But a few simple things are in your power, and they are all you need. A sound mind. A strong body. A loving heart. A virtuous soul. A rich imagination. A close family. A handful of lifelong friends. A few memorable achievements. A treasure of stories. A few dreams that you can attain. A few more that you can pass on to others. These are all you need."-Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire commencement speech
3946) "While you're standing in the grocery line holding Spam instead of foie gras for a few years ponder the following: Those of you who perform - musicians and dancers - will have by now practiced perhaps 3,000 hours a year, times 15 years, which equals 45,000 hours. Which means collectively that you as a group will have practiced 11 million hours. Challenge the idea that the arts are for a select few - teach, make more people love what you love, and help them to understand why you dedicated those 11 million hours in the first place."-Renee Fleming, Opera singer, The Juilliard School commencement speech
3947) "I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress." - Elizabeth Montague
3948) "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."-George Bernard Shaw
3949) "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'"-Martin Luther King, Jr.
3950) "The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love."-Margaret Atwood
3951) "Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself - If that doesn't make you different then something is wrong."-Laura Baker
3952) "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."-Martin Luther King Jr.
3953) "Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot."-Chinese Proverb
3954) "You could lie to people who didn't know you, and they might never know it. But someone who'd known you since you were a girl could hear the lie, could see it; could almost taste it."-Sylvia Brownrigg, "With an X"
3955) "One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."-Voltaire
3956) "...every relationship ends until you find yourself in the one that doesn't."-Dan Savage, "Savage Love"
3957) "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."-Sir Winston Churchill
3958) "Hilary Alexander had promised to pick up a friend at La Guardia Airport, but it had been a while since she'd driven there and she was uncertain about the route. She asked a well-traveled friend how he gets there. 'I get into a cab and say, "La Guardia, please,"' he replied."-"Metropolitan Diary", The New York Times
3959) "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."-Laurens Van der Post
3960) "A compliment is verbal sunshine."-Robert Orben
3961) "There is a kind of friend that women make in college and through our 20's that for many of us becomes one of life's most important relationships. Unlike in grade school and high school, where you wind up friends with the girl who sits next to you on the bus or the one you're thrown together with in gym, these are the friends we truly choose. Separated from our families, we decide we can make a family of our own. These new sisters are the recipients of the enormous energy and time we have to pour into relationships. The idea is simply this: if you talk to someone long enough, sooner or later you'll know everything about her."-Ann Patchett, The New York Times
3962) "Getting up at the crack of dawn for work is sort of like doing the New York Times crossword puzzle - it gets harder and harder as the week goes on until it's almost impossible on Friday."-Aaron Karo
3963) "For me, the moment I knew it was time to quit my job was when I caught myself using office buzzwords with my family. I was like, 'Hey Mom, I just touched base with Dad. Yeah, he's out of pocket right now but we're gonna circle back in about an hour. I really think it's critical that he gives us the view from 50,000 feet because there seems to be some disconnect between...wait a minute, what the fuck am I talking about?'"-Aaron Karo
3964) "Right up there with trying to survive when you're hungover in the office is trying to stay awake at your desk after you come back from lunch. It should really be an Olympic sport. It's a beautiful day out, you just went out to eat and had a nice turkey sandwich, then you get back to your desk and all of a sudden you become narcoleptic. Phones are ringing off the hook, people are yelling, but your Herman Miller chair is the most comfortable bed in the world. I once fell asleep for so long on my computer that when I woke up I had impressions from the F and J keys in my forehead."-Aaron Karo
3965) "Ever try to explain to your grandmother what you do for a living? No matter what you do it's always way too complicated to explain. You're like, well, you see, our clients are looking to raise additional capital and we provide a liquid market for...uh, yeah, you're not following this. How about this? I'm a stockbroker. Yup, just like on TV."-Aaron Karo
3966) "I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward."-Lord Chesterfield
3967) "So, let's impeach god! I would like to announce my candidacy for the position of god; among other things, I promise to offer true and unquestionable proof of my existence, as the previous holder of the office of 'god' obviously failed to do."-Rashind
3968) "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."-Benjamin Franklin
3969) "The good news is that in your 50's, after the kids have moved out and you've reached a certain stage in your career, your friends will still be there (along with some new ones acquired over the years). You will again have time for them, and they will be even more interesting than they were in your 20's. It is one of the more gratifying surprises of this stage of life. Take heart."-Susan Katz, The New York Times
3970) "The casual dating thing may be what the carefree queers of the '90s are into, but it just doesn't do it for me. I don't like being around strangers enough to date someone if I don't think that joint checking and rooms filled with IKEA furnishings aren't a definite possibility. I don't need to sit through boring movies or endless hockey games just so we can get to know each other and feel that we have fulfilling interpersonal relationships. I am quite secure in my dysfunction and do not need to pretend that my life has meaning outside of watching Bruce Willis movies. I have an entire owner's manual already typed up. I simply hand it over on the first date and tell him to call with any questions."-Michael Thomas Ford, Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me & Other Trials From My Queer Life
3971) "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was."-Walt West
3972) "You're a little bit racist./ Well, you're a little bit, too./ I guess we're both a little bit racist./ Admitting it is not an easy thing to do.../ But I guess it's true./ Between me and you, I think / Everyone's a little bit racist, sometimes/ Doesn't mean we go around committing hate crimes./ Look around and you will find/ No one's really color-blind./ Maybe it's a fact we all should face./ Everyone makes judgments.../ Based on race.../ Everyone's a little bit racist -- All right!/ Bigotry has never been exclusively white --/ If we all could just admit/ That we are racist a little bit,/ Even though we all know that it's wrong,/ Maybe it would help us get along!"-Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist", Avenue Q
3973) "Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."-Horace
3974) "Who, being loved, is poor?"-Oscar Wilde
3975) "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."-Mahatma Gandhi
3976) "Things are looking kind of OK these days. Life has a way of moving on. Your senses are numbed; things stop shocking you. If there is one thing you should believe in, it is that life will find a way to push on; humans are adaptable -- that is the only way to explain how such a foolish species has kept itself on this planet without wiping itself out."-Salam Pax, Iraqi blogger, in his post-war commentary
3977) "One recent Sunday afternoon, I was walking down Broadway and saw a young boy heading in my direction on a bicycle. He had a helmet on, and his bike had training wheels. As I got closer, I could tell that he was chanting something in a sing-song voice, and I figured it was some sort of children's song or something he had picked up from TV. Finally I got close enough to hear the chant. It went like this: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is 96th Street. Transfers available for the 1 and 9 trains. . . ."-Shira Abilevitz, "Metropolitan Diary," The New York Times
3978) "It should be noted that Justice Scalia took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench, which is the highest form of dissent. His opinion included the view that this now opens the floodgates for bestiality, among other things. I'm not sure if he's correct, but my dog just asked me out to dinner."-Brad Becker, on the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the Texas sodomy law that prohibited consensual sex by same-sex partners
3979) "I'll know we've changed when we see a show called Straight Eye for the Gay Guy. In it a group of heterosexual men prep a gay man for the night he asks his boyfriend to marry him. When the boyfriend says yes, the straight guys cheer, and the gay guy chokes up. That will be the day gay people are no longer ornaments or accessories or objects of either derision or compassion. That will be the day gay people will finally have the description we have been seeking for so long: human beings."-Andrew Sullivan, Time
3980) "To fully comprehend some experiences you must let go of everything you know, everything that has gone before, and let the landscape of your new world define itself. Perhaps we should do this always, with each new day and moment of our lives. But we don't. We compare over and over again, this to that and that to this. So moments like this...are good lessons. They jar you from the habit of comparison, which tempers new emotions and experiences, cloaks them in familiar wrapping."-Harlyn Aizley, Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor
3981) "Time is the lens through which dreams are captured."-Francis Ford Coppola
3982) "Jesus of Nazarath is either God, or he was the greatest con artist/martyr/egomaniac in the history of the world."-LJ
3983) "...Nora...recognizes this strain of fever, malarial in nature. Once you've been struck, you may recover, but always carry susceptibility. In a weak moment you can be felled again, a quick swoon to the ground, then the lovely, terrifying incandescence that is the hallmark of the condition. And as you lie there, you have to wonder, is it the other you want, or the other as agent of the incandescence?"-Carol Anshaw, Lucky in the Corner
3984) "You can't be teased effectively by someone who isn't paying attention to who you are."-Rachel Silverman
3985) "One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words."-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3986) "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."-Benjamin Disraeli
3987) "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."-Frank Zappa
3988) ''Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."-Garrison Keillor, The New York Times Magazine
3989) "The irony of life is that it is lived forward but understood backward."-Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
3990) "The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means to be self-motivated, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth clichés lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race." Janet Finch, White Oleander
3991) "That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific—chair, eye, stone—but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out."-Janet Finch, White Oleander
3992) "Ever had that experience, it's almost like a déjà vu, and its commonest manifestation is hearing a word for the first time one day and suddenly it seems to be in everyone's vocabulary? TV, radio, your friend's low SAT little brother...everyone suddenly just always knew that word you just learned."-Gil Murtagh
3993) "There is, first of all, the question of Boston or New York. . . . It is a one-sided problem. For the New Yorker, San Francisco or Florida, perhaps - Boston, never."-Elizabeth Hardwick, "Boston," 1959
3994) "Boston is not a small New York, as they say a child is not a small adult but is, rather, a specially organized small creature with its small-creature's temperature, balance, and distribution of fat. In Boston here is an utter absence of that wild electric beauty of New York, of the marvelous, excited rush of people in taxicabs at twilight, of the great Avenues and Streets, the restaurants, theatres, bars, hotels, delicatessens, shops. In Boston the night comes down with an incredibly heavy, small-town finality. The cows come home; the chickens go to roost; the meadow is dark. Nearly every Bostonian is in his house or in someone else's house, dining at the home board, enjoying domestic and social privacy."-Elizabeth Hardwick, "Boston," 1959
3995) "Indeed, when New Yorkers bother to come [to Boston], it is always because there is no way around it: 'We're taking Caitlin to see schools'; 'We were on our way to Maine, and thought we would give you a call.' For New Yorkers, Boston is sort of an Extreme New Jersey, with colleges. We are the original bridge and tunnel people - many bridges, many tunnels. Having lived here for 20 years, it has come to own me, this sense of subservience to New York's assumed superiority. New York is so happening - the Dalai Lama in the Park! Uma at Noche! Boston is so happened. My adopted hometown is a city that never tires of looking at itself in the mirror, but it is the rear-view mirror that attracts its gaze. Two schools here - Boston Latin and Roxbury Latin - quarrel incessantly over which is the oldest in the country. Each could claim to be the best school in the country, but the dispute over precedence seems more immediate....All my friends in New York were once get-ahead-niks. Now they are gotten-ahead-niks. And yet nothing suffices; they have no time, no living space, no respite from the frantic pace dictated by the city that never sleeps. They double-book appointments, they work about twice as hard as I do. They look old before their time."-Alex Beam, The New York Times
3996) "Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for crow-bar."-Oliver Wendell Holmes
3997) "George W. Bush is like a man who tells you that he's bought you a fancy new TV set for Christmas, but neglects to tell you that he charged it to your credit card, and that while he was at it he also used the card to buy some stuff for himself. Eventually, the bill will come due - and it will be your problem, not his."-Paul Krugman, The New York Times
3998) "If we perceive things not as problems but rather as opportunities for learning, we can experience a sense of joy and well-being when the lessons are learned. We are never presented with lessons until we are ready to learn them."-Gerald G. Jampolsky
3999) "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
4000) "Confront the dark parts of yourself and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength."-August Wilson