It's Been Longer

The moment a child is born,
the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
-Rajneesh

It's Been Awhile.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
-Lech Walesa

Easter

As we approach this Easter season, it is a priceless blessing to know that Jesus Christ lives, that He is the Redeemer and Savior of all mankind and the Son of God. We declare to all that Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).

The first Easter, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the greatest and most significant miracle of all time.

We testify that the Resurrection was literal and real. Our Savior brought to every person who will ever live on this earth the privilege of once again having a body, of living again. Even though it has been nearly two thousand years since the Savior lived on the earth, His teachings still apply today. He gave us a practical guide for living in peace.

We urge all people to search the Savior’s life for truths that will guide and give meaning to their lives. He died that we might live. We worship Him and invite all to do likewise.

-President Ezra Taft Benson, President Gordon B. Hinckley, President Thomas S. Monson, 1992.

Edgar W. Howe

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

-Edgar W. Howe

Gene McSweeney

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were.

-Gene McSweeney

Iris Murdoch

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

-Iris Murdoch

Sandra Boynton

Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt.

-Sandra Boynton

Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

-Joseph Addison

Arturo Toscanini

Assassins!

-Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra

Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

-Sir Winston Churchill

Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

-Bertrand Russell

Rita Rudner

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

-Rita Rudner

Louis Fabian Bachrach

The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.

-Louis Fabian Bachrach

Shakespeare

And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

-William Shakespeare

Jack Handey

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something.

-Jack Handey