Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

J. A. Spender

A fly and a flea in a flueWere imprisoned, so what could they do?Said the Flea, Let us fly!Said the Fly, Let us flee!So they fled through a flaw in the flue.

Anon.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Ovid

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare

I am always going to be true to myself.

Princess of Wales Diana

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Mitt Romney

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

Reinhold Niebuhr

My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you. . . We live in a contaminated moral environment. We have fallen morally ill because we became used to saying one thing and thinking another. We have learned not to believe in anything, to ignore each other, to care only about ourselves. Notions such as love, friendship, compassion, humility, or forgiveness have lost their depth and dimensions. . . The previous regime . . . reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

Vaclav Havel

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw, "Reader's D