Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

George Eliot

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Vance Packard

A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish

Santosh Kalwar

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Hubbard

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Francis Schaeffer

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

Ian Hornak, "Cover Magazine", 19

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

George Bancroft

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Ayelet Waldman

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously

Bertrand Russell