It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Thomas Carlyle

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Walters

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

Jonathan Swift

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

All revolutions devour their own children.

Ernst Rohm

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

George Eliot

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Erich von Stroheim

I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

Eric Lefkofsky

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Robert Bork

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Oscar Homoka

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Charles de Montesquieu

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

James Madison