Aim high, choose noble ends...

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Francis Bacon

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

David Herbert Lawrence

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

John Perkins

Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

P. J. O'Rourke

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George A. Moore

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal.

Mark Twain

Is there no way out of the mind?

Sylvia Plath

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Karl Von Clausewitz

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Paul Ambroise Valery, La Jeune P