The beginning of wisdom starts from persistently living up to your responsibilities in life, despite your circumstances.

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.