Their Quotes

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.