All you owe the public is a good performance.

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,A neighborly day for a beauty.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.Since we're together we might as well say:Would you be mine?Could you be mine?Won't you be my neighbor?Won't you please,Won't you please?Please won't you be my neighbor?

Fred Rogers

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

Terry Pratchett

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

George Orwell

A nobleman is Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

Ambrose Bierce

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Bodhidharma

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

Andrew Motion

Our work is really about taking the best of what is in a place and working that into a project. We'd like to take your vision and goals and weave that into all the bricks and mortar and steel and glass put together, along with all the functional things that we need to make the airport work better.

Curtis W. Fentress, remarks rega

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

Nathalie Sarraute