Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.

Kathleen Turner

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Steve Jobs

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

Vance Havner

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

William Shakespeare

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Ben Jonson

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Dag Hammarskjold

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Immanuel Kant

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Thomas J. Watson

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Helen Keller

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.

Christopher Hitchens

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Harry Connick, Jr.