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.

It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

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.

Not my species, not my problem.

Educating the child is everybody's business.

True purpose dies when true people who are supposed to keep it alive fail to give it life

It will always depend on you, the choices you make and the actions you take.

The beginning of wisdom starts from persistently living up to your responsibilities in life, despite your circumstances.

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

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.

I know, I know. I rescued him and he's bonded to me like a baby duck.

You can't improve what you won't face and own.

you are responsible for you own happiness

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

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...

We ourselves are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

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.'

Even today, after so many years, I cannot determine where my pure negligence ended, and where my culpability began. Perhaps I will never know.

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...

It is impossible to erase my choices.