Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

Ralph Nader

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Jean de la Bruyere

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

Andrew Cohen

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

Kaiser Wilhelm

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air:And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolveAnd, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion

Albert Camus

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

Sheryl Crow

Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

Stephen Hawking

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

Lucinda Williams

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer

It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.

Elbert Hubbard

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

Margaret Spellings