It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

Nelson Mandela

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Jesse Jackson

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Philip James Bailey

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

Ed Miliband

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Mandy Patinkin

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ellen Parr

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Benjamin Franklin

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Philip Seymour Hoffman