A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have; so spend it wisely.

Kay Lyons

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

Albert Camus

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

James M. Barrie

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

John Keats

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Kahlil Gibran

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Of if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

Stephen King

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

Warren Christopher

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Stephen King

If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte