Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Theodor Adorno

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Leo Tolstoy

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

Walter Benjamin

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, New Y

Those who do not think bout the future cannot have one.

Michael J. Kami

I have a family.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

Brian Baird

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

Tony Campolo

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Simone Weil, Waiting for God