I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

Carl Levin

If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

Wiz Khalifa

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

Compton Mackenzie

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

Every country has the government it deserves.

Joseph De Maistre

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas Alva Edison

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

Scottish Proverb

Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point:Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.

Hank Nuwer, Wrongs of Passage, p

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

Jean Baudrillard

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

George Santayana