Quotes Ba-Bd "If life gives you nothing but lemons, make up a better shopping list for it." -- Stevn B., age 8 "We've been singing the same song in this country for more than 200 years. It's a very good song, and I want to keep singing it. I'm very leery of changing the lyrics." --ART BABBOTT, on a Flagstaff, Ariz., resolution urging federal authorities to respect citizens' civil rights when fighting terrorism. "A happy heart comes first, then a happy face." -- Lucille Ball "It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time." -- Honor� de Balzac "Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness." -- Faith Baldwin "Gays are gay by the will of God. God does not produce faulty parts. God is not Fiat." -- Roman Catholic Fr. Franco Barbero of Pinerolo, Italy, who was defrocked by Pope John Paul II March 13, 2003 for marrying gay couples. "I know I am God because when I pray to Him, I find I am speaking to myself."� -- Peter Barnes "A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children." -- Dave Barry "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself." -- Ethel Barrymore "Courage is fear that has said its prayers." -- Karl Barth "Nothing happens to you. Everything happens from you." -- Bashar "There's windstorms and ice storms in the woods and we have those in our community, too. A healthy community cannot only withstand those stresses, but bends and sways and develops a strength as a result of those stresses, if there's a commitment to do that. In the forest, that kind of commitment is called life. The trees have to do it to survive. In a community, it's called democracy." -- Rick Bass "You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you." -- Vicki Baum Index