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“If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.”
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“Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own lands. But as a country, we cannot afford to have a total open-door policy without any restrictions on entry.”
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“The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.”
Source : "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.
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“I have been baptized twice- once in water...once in flame.”
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“It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.”
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“They will speak of things that are spiritual and beautiful and of things that are practical and utilitarian; they will mix up angels and engines, sunsets and spark plugs, fraternity and frequencies in one all-encompassing comradeship of interests that makes for the best and most lasting kind of friendship any man can have.”
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“Hounds follow those who feed them.”