Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Michael Korda

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

Roseanne Barr

Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

Source Unknown

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

Stephen Sondheim

Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approximately half the eligible voters vote this means that approximately 75% of the people are ruled by 25% of the people.

Robert J. Ringer

Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.

Emily Procter

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Aberjhani

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Lawrence Welk

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Robin Gibb

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

Source Unknown

Luck marches with those who give their very best

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Science packages theory, places it on a throne, and honors and protects it much like a queen. Engineers make the queen come down from the throne and scrub the floor. And if she doesn't work, we fire her.

Robert J. Marks II