The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

Marilyn Horne

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

James C. Humes

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.

Oscar Wilde

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

David Hockney

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law. It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound. Live free, child of the mist--and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist. The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. That is active duty, says the Vishnu Purana, which is not for our bondage; that is knowledge which is for our liberation: all other duty is good only unto weariness; all other knowledge is only the cleverness of an artist.http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/wlkng10.txt

Henry David Thoreau, Walking

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

George Jean Nathan

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

Brian Austin Green

The gospel is neither a discussion or a debate. It is an announcement.

Paul S. Rees

Speak less and listen more.

Zai

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

Albert Camus

- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.- Never use a long word where a short one will do.- If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.- Never use the passive where you can use the active.- Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.- Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

George Orwell