Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult — in any way — something in your childhood dies. - John Irving

The chairman of the state board of medical examiners was a retired physician who thought that President Teddy Roosevelt was the only other man in the world besides himself who had not been made from a banana.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.