The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Samuel Johnson

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

William Congreve

Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Anthony Robbins

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. Explaining why the hero's woman must get shot

Steven Seagal

It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.

Monique Lhuillier

I hope the readers of this book may experience the same benevolent and elevating feeling which I have experienced when I was working on its creation, and which I experience again and again, when I reread it every day, working on the enlargement and improvement of the previous edition.

Leo Tolstoy

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Chinese Proverb

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Madame Dorothe Deluzy

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus

I am not the lonely human, plunked down on earth to aimlessly wander. I am a part of that earth and not going anywhere- just like the spider up in the corner, the dust on the sill, and the cat I buried in the backyard. -Jamaica Ritcher.

Jay Allison