If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

They say...Love thy neighbor as thy self... What am I supposed to do? Jerk him off too?

Rodney Dangerfield

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

Jane Austen

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Henry Fielding

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Jennifer M. Granholm

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.

Dakin Williams

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

Susan Sontag

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

Ron Wyden

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Morris West

If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

Theodore Roosevelt

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

Philip Sidney