We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize how frail we truly are.”-Skyla (from Twiceborn)

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.

Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

You can't make homes out of human beings.