"Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop."

“There are just as many ***** out there as bastards. Equal opportunity asshole-ism.”

“The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.”

“I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.”

“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”

Source : Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

“In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.”

“In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.”

“For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.”

“I've gotta breathe it, I've gotta eat it, I've gotta sleep it and until you get there you will never be successful in life. But once you get there I guarantee you, the world is yours. So work hard, and you can have whatever it is that you want.”