“Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.”

A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together, and together grow old.

To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

An author never has a vacation. He’s a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he’s saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

And so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.

Things don’t change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility

And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they’re coming to visit or stay with.

Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport.

A tremendous number of people come to the country legally, but overstay their visas.