"Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors."

“There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.”

“The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.”

“My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.”

“William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.”

“You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world”

Source : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

“There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.”

Source : Lee Hammond (2002). “Drawing in Color - Animals”, p.78, North Light Books

“And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.”

“After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.”