Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Thomas Carlyle

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Julius Erving

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

David Hockney

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Mary J. Blige

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

Bill Richardson

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Minds differ still more than faces

Voltaire

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott