My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Robert G. Ingersoll, A Lay Sermo

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Edward R. Murrow

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else...was to be indifferent to that difference.

Al Capp, "Life (magazine)", May

When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith &amp Wesson.

Rick Perry

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Dean Kamen

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

James Lane Allen

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

Bo Bennett

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Rainn Wilson

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Terry Brooks