The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Aristotle

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

Bill Maher

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Robert Townsend

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Amartya Sen

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

JeanPaul Sartre

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

Conrad Veidt

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Jon Kyl

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

English Proverb

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Kurt Russell

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

It's dangerous being free, but most come to like the taste o' it

George R.R. Martin