As America celebrates Memorial Day we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

Women have been called queens for a long time but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Women may not have it easy but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

I continue to believe contrary to the given wisdom that it's more interesting to have an album - or indeed an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

The more I work with the body keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

In April 1991 after the Gulf war Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually and also in a way I can't even explain.

When I can look life in the eyes grown calm and very coldly wise life will have given me the truth and taken in exchange - my youth.