My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.

Agnes C. Laut

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

Source Unknown

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Saint Stephen

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Cyril Falls

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

Source Unknown

Everything changes but change.

Israel Zangwill

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

Thomas Kempis

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Paul Cezanne

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Robert B. Parker

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

Peter L. Berger

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Francis Marion Crawford