Good night, sleep tight, and don’t let the bedbugs bite.

There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind. -Hannah Senesh-

Q: In school we learned that the world is round like a ball. So why don’t the people on the bottom fall off? A: You’ve stated a common misconception here. Actually, people are falling off all the time!

Charlie Chaplin once allegedly said to Albert Einstein: “The people applaud me because everyone understands me, and they applaud you because no one understands you.”

Democracy says that the popular vote can take right away and once taken away the act is sanctioned and upheld by all laws, human and divine. I deny it. I say it is a wrong, however it is perpetuated. Why, mothers. What do you care how you are robbed of your babe? The question is not how it is done, the outrage is that it is done at all. -Owen Lovejoy-

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together. -Rita Dove-

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

It’s a good thing Mary felt differently about abortion than Notre Dame does.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we had. -Nancy Samalin (“Love and Anger: The Parental Dilemma,” Dec. 1992 Reader’s Digest)-

The only hope of reward is the cessation of pain.