If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that...

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so...

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty I woke and found that life was Duty.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better job if you understand that...

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

you are responsible for you own happiness

Pastor, Face Your Business. When people say this, they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.

When there is no owner, there will be an abuser.

My job is to scream cockle - doodle - doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.

God will create the best opportunity for you. To find those opportunities is your responsibility.

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other...

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

See, my special gift is that I'm a mediator. I help guide the tortured souls of the newly dead to their afterlife destinations - wherever that happens to be - generally by cleaning up whatever messes...

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up...

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don't either of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your...

Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.

If your faith is genuine, then you meet your responsibilities, fulfill your obligations, and wait until you are found. It will come. If not to you, then to your children, and if not to them, then to...

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

He believed that rank without power was a sham.

You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of...

But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is...