I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer.

Albert Camus

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

Andrew Greeley

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

John Stuart Mill

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

I always thought Detritus would be good at: I bet you're wondrin' how many time I fired dis crossbow--

Terry Pratchett

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Hope Edelman

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Kathleen Blanco

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Rupert Murdoch

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Michael Graves

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Cathy Guisewite