I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Nicolas Malebranche

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

C.S. Lewis

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

Gustave Flaubert

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

Rick Larsen

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Berke Breathed

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

Jonathan Edwards

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

George Bernard Shaw

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Helen Macinness

Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.

Shane Filan

I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your eyes also. Is love content with that? You do them, indeed, because they are His will, but not only because they are his will. Where can you taste the joy of obeying unless he bids you do something for which His bidding is the reason?

C.S. Lewis