"Be helpful - even if there's no immediate profit in it."

“Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhere in all space or on a thousand worlds will there be men to share our loneliness.”

“And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you.”

“My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.”

Source : "Country Music Sensation Billy Ray Cyrus". Interview with Kelli Gillespie, www.risenmagazine.com. 2013.

“Yesterday Gary Condit spent the whole day attending an agricultural meeting. Boy, that's when you know a congressman's in real trouble: when he spends the whole day actually working.”

“We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami”

“Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.”

“I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom”

Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

“I don't believe in capital per se or a priori but I do occasionally believe in personal capital vis-a- vis psychic energy exchange. I use the word "capital" only poetically.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net