Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Thomas Sowell

Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.

Andrew Fletcher, 1698

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Francois Rabelais

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Jim Rohn

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

Please, we can get along here.

Rodney King

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Harry Dean Stanton

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Homer

Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.

Orson Scott Card

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Plato