Boxing is dangerous, but at least it hits the right people.

The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

Eric Hoffer

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Arabella Weir

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself.

Princess Anne Ireland

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Thomas Paine

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Lao Tzu

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Marshall McLuhan

Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.

Christopher Judge

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

Terry McAuliffe

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane Austen

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Thomas Kempis

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thus we feed on genius, and refresh ourselves from too much conversation with our mates, and exult in the depth of nature in that direction in which he leads us. What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies! Every mother wishes one son a genius, though all the rest should be mediocre. But a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man. His attractions warp us from our place. We have become underlings and intellectual suicides. Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;- other great men, new qualities, counterweights and checks on each other. We cloy of the honey of each peculiar greatness. Every hero becomes a bore at last. Perhaps Voltaire was not bad-hearted, yet he said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again. They cry up the virtues of George Washington,- Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation. But it is human nature's indispensable defense. The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the state depends on the see-saw.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complet