My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

Thomas Menino

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Willa Cather, Shadows on the Roc

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

Louis C. K.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

John Engler

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Martin Luther

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Benny Green

There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.

Groucho Marx

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Nat King Cole

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

Phyllis Schlafly