Phyllis McGinley

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.