Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Sylvia Browne

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Samuel Johnson

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

Norman Vincent Peale

You make a living by what you earn; you make a life by what you give.

Winston Churchill

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Lord Chesterfield

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.

George Bernard Shaw, Preface to

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Quella strada del passato si srotolava confusamente di fianco a noi come se la tazza della vita si fosse rovesciata e ogni cosa fosse impazzita.

Jack Kerouac

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.

John Berger

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.

Paulo Coelho

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

Amy Sedaris