At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Italian Proverb

Words pay no debts.

William Shakespeare

Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

Source Unknown

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

Dan Rather

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Marilyn vos Savant

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Ramsey Clark

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

The government of the United States have no idea of paying their debt in a depreciated medium, and... in the final liquidation of the payments which shall have been made, due regard will be had to an equitable allowance for the circumstance of depreciation.

Thomas Jefferson

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Raymond Chandler