"Happiness is not the goal- it is a byproduct of the choices we make."
- Said in a speech I heard recently...

"It must be fully dark before we can see the stars."
- From my fortune cookie of all things! This saying came along at the *perfect* time in my life.

"Though we may travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or find it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."
- Jaime Raskin, Professor of Law, said in his testimony against a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. "
- Emma Goldman