After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.

Christopher Knight

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

William Shakespeare

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them??by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

Jane Austen

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

Coretta Scott King

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Patrick Kavanagh

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Harry S. Truman

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

General Douglas MacArthur

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.