The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.

J. S. Habgood

Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.early 1900's

Charles Sanders Pierce, manuscri

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

Amber Riley

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

Douglas Wood

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

Vernor Vinge

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Dennis Prager

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Mark Twain

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

William Shakespeare

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it

Confucius