We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Oliver North

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

B. F. Skinner

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

Janette Rallison

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

Naomi Wolf

Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.

Orson Scott Card

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

Henry Miller

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

Evan Davis

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James A. Baldwin

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

John Milton

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John Morley

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Tony Bennett