Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Mark Twain

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

Caspar David Friedrich

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Pierre Corneille

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

Joel Robuchon

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

Richard Leakey

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

J. C. (James Cash) Penney

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Mason Cooley

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

James Thurber

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Bill Owens

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, no.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt