"I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba."

“I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.”

“[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.”

Source : "Raise the minimum wage" by Tom Harkin, www.politico.com. June 24, 2013.

“People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation.”

“Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.”

“We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.”

“-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!”

Source : "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, ch. 27, p. 309, 1961.

“Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.”

Source : "Prayer of the Farm Workers' Struggle". Poem by Cesar Chavez,