"If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life."

“Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. We’re going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. He’s got a lot of ability. He’s shown some flashes of brilliance and then he’s shown some rookie mistakes. We’ve got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (we’ve) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don’t know.”

“Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.”

“I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.”

“Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.”

Source : "Words Designed to Kill Reform - This Time It’s Wall Street" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

“You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.”

“O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings”, p.6, Stanford University Press

“Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.”

“Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.”