“We cannot attract and retain the best and brightest talent to lead and staff the AIG businesses”

Now that is a funny quote!

“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” - Golda Meir

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. - Anais Nin

“The president-elect has promised changes in policies. There is a capacity for the improvement of ties between America and Iran if Obama pursues his campaign promises, including not confronting other countries as Bush did in Iraq and Afghanistan, and also concentrating on America’s state matters and removing the American people’s concerns.” - AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI - IRAN

“In this case hope has won over prejudice — this is good for the United States and the world as a whole.” - CELSO AMORIM, BRAZILIAN FOREIGN MINISTER

“No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell … That’s why perfume and deodorant are so popular.”
Mae, age 9

ON WHAT FALLING IN LOVE IS LIKE

“Like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.”
John, age 9

“If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don’t want to do it. It takes too long.”
Glenn, age 7

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.  - Mark Twain

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.  - George Michael

In grade school I was smart, but I didn’t have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.  - David Spade

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.  - H. L. Mencken

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

1. Don’t bite the hand that . . . looks dirty.

2. Better to be safe than . . . punch a 5th grader.

3. If you lie down with dogs, you . . . will stink in the morning.

4. Where there is smoke, there is . . . pollution.

5. If at first you don’t succeed . . . get new batteries.

-Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.  - Douglas Adams

-It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. - T. S. Eliot

-The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. - James Irwin