Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

Thomas Frank

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Ayn Rand, The Metaphysical Versu

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

Source Unknown

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Albert A. Bartlett

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Mary Baker Eddy

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.

Source Unknown

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

Abbe Pierre

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Woodrow Wilson

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

Billy Wilder

While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.

Trevor Rabin

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Francis Herbert Hedge