Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Og Mandino

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc, The Silence of t

People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

Friedrich Engels

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

Homer

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Henry David Thoreau

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

George Eliot

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher McCandless

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan

It's no shame in reaching second or third base if you aimed for first base.

Stephen Richards