The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

George McGovern

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Anthony Trollope

There is no such thing as a functional illiterate.

Kelvin Throop III

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

Marlee Matlin

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Owen Felltham

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Steve Ballmer

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

Jeanne Birdsall

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.

Adam Levine

Youth holds no society with grief.

Euripides

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Hans Selye

Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by their own failures and their own successes.

Lawson Purdy