The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so deliberately, that he kills himself with thinking -- one could barely call it suicide since it is thinking which takes his life. He does not kill himself with deliberation but rather kills himself because of deliberation.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Present A

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

Anton Szandor LaVey

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Milton Friedman

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

Howard Lindsay

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

John Knowles

Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.

Fernanda Bartolme

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

Meriwether Lewis

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Simone Weil

Human improvement is from within outward.

James A. Froude

Why doesn't DOS ever say 'EXCELLENT command or filename!'

Anon.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe

Thomas Carlyle