I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

Joyce Carol Oates

Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money,I give you myself before preaching or law;Will you give me yourself, will you come travel with me?Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?

Walt Whitman, Song of the Open R

My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.

Ashton Eaton

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

Ted Nugent

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Eileen Caddy

I don't like the idea of famous people.

Kristin Hersh

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Ronald Reagan

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Benjamin Franklin

Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty miles away.' 'Life is a mystery,' said Powdermill, with a gold-toothed grin. 'It is that, right enough,' agreed Huntsekker.

David Gemmell

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.

George Eliot

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

Abraham Lincoln