Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction,' we all knew.

Steven Adler

For, stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Addr

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul II

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

Shinzo Abe

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Cyril Connolly

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.

Toba Beta

You get people to help you by telling the truth; by being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Randy Pausch

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

Criss Jami

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

Leigh Steinberg