What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann von Goethe

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Nas

Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Oscar Wilde

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

Nadia Giosia

Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when if feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

Stephen King

When dancing with a pit bull, it's always best to let him lead.

Michael Barnett

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called

Carl Sagan

At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Arthur Gordon

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

Alton Brown