At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Winston Churchill

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Dan Rather

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

George Bernard Shaw

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

... life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it;... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Alan Alda

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Samuel Dash

Ben Says: Empower

Timothy Pina

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

David Herbert Lawrence

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Gaius Lucilius

It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

E.B. White