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Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950 · Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998) · Dwight D. Eisenhower, A speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference in Washington, DC on Nov. 14, 1957 · John Mortimer, The Observer (1999) · Michael Howard, The Observer (1980) · Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. – Confucius
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Latin Proverb
If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve. – Bryant McGill
Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back, don't you go dying on me – Dumb & Dumber
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. – George Will
The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action. – Edward Bedore
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We love most those who we serve most. – Bryant McGill
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Marianne Williamson
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death – Confucius
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. – Thomas Fuller
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward. – Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears"
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. – Aesop
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose. – Bhagavad Gita
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. – Helen Rowland
Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. – John Milton, Paradise Lost
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. – John Milton, Paradise Lost
Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward. – Antigonus of Sokho
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it. – C. C. Colton
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away. – Thomas Tusser
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness. – Hannah More
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. – Albert Pike
Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. – John Milton
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country – Joseph Addison

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