In almost every book there's a line or two that will make you say, "Oh, that's perfect!" Maybe it's a line that strikes just the right chord or one that makes you think or look at something in a new way. Sometimes... it's just a smile. 

So what do I do?  I steal 'em!  Well, I borrow them anyway and share them with friends. Who knows... it might just get you to go out and find the book.  Steve K  12/23/2002

One of the primary objectives of American policy, Truman said, was "the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free of coercion." This had been a fundamental issue in the war with Germany and Japan, countries that had tried "to impose their will, and their way of life, upon other countries."  (excerpts of March 12, 1947 speech setting forth 'the Truman Doctrine." Harry S. Truman)

Everything had changed around her, but Mamma Truman had never changed... Her philosophy was simple. You knew right from wrong and you did right, and you always did your best. That's all there was to it." (excerpt of Margaret Truman's memory of her 'country grandmother')

General Bradley wrote that it was "folly to argue whether one weapon is more immoral than another. For, in a larger sense, it is war itself which is immoral, and the stigma of such immorality must rest upon the nation which initiates hostilities." (January, 1950 General Omar Bradley)

Truman had been sitting in a chair in the bedroom with several new books stacked on a table beside him. Did the President like to read himself to sleep at night, McCormick asked. "No, young man," said Truman, "I like to read myself awake."

all the above quotes are from Truman by David McCullough

In seeming contradiction of physical laws, time is heavy only when it is empty. Trevanian - Shibumi

... envy is second only to self-pity as the most dangerous of all emotions. Dark Rivers of the Heart - Dean Koontz

There are letters to the editor from people all over Ireland claiming they heard the first cuckoo of the year and you can read between the lines that people are calling each other liars. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost

Home is where you come from. It is not where you live at the present time, and though I doubt I will ever live in Alabama again, I will always think of it as home.  Jimmy Buffett - A Pirate Looks at Fifty

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone's else's draft. H. G. Wells

The pain of speaking from the heart was always, in the end, more endurable than the suffering that was the price of silence. Dark Rivers of the Heart - Dean Koontz

'There is something to be said about a face that makes one smile.'  Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn

You know how to make God laugh?... Tell him your plans! ???

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. . .the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. George Bernard Shaw

"I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years" Paul Simon 

The only thing new under the sun is the history you don't know." Harry S. Truman

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