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“Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.”
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“If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth.”
Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.10, Random House
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“a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes”
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“When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a soft rain falls gently, I'll stand in this place, recalling the last time, I saw your kind face. Good fortune go with you, to your journey's end, let the waters run calmly, for you, my dear friend.”
Source : Brian Jacques (2004). “Loamhedge: A Novel of Redwall”, p.91, Penguin
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“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention”
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“The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.”
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“My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.”
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“I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.”
Source : "Rep. Massa: I will vote against the interests of my district". www.washingtontimes.com. August 16, 2009. 
