Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible.

Jeff Taylor

Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.

Jonathan Swift

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

Lil Wayne

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Rowan D. Williams

You are not showing her my baby pictures! He sounded horrified, which made me laugh. Come on, Evan, I teased with a laughing smile, you were adorable.

Rebecca Donovan

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Henry David Thoreau

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

Seymour Hersh

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Calvin Coolidge