"Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice."

-- Mark Pryor

#Courage Quotes #Kings Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.”
“We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.”

Source : Democratic National Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.
“To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.”

Source : Almanac (1941) p. 77
“I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?”
“I have worked with leaders for 17 years. But I'm also a leader myself, and I can honestly say I feel deeply the privilege and responsibility that come with being a CEO. It is incumbent upon us to become all we can be, not only for ourselves, but for our companies.”
“Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.”
“Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.”
“People like to define you through what they've seen you do ... There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.”

Source : "Born Funny" by Margot Dougherty, Reader's Digest, September 2007.

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