Civility costs nothing.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Ernest Hemingway

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Karen Horney

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Harvey S. Firestone

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

William Shakespeare

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.

C. JoyBell C.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.

Stephen Richards

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I