Their Quotes

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.