Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Ron Blomberg

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Buddha

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Sir Winston Churchill

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

Studs Terkel

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

John Milton

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Big whirls have little whirls,That feed on their velocity;And little whirls have lesser whirls,And so on to viscosity.

Lewis Fry Richardson

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

Caleb Carr

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

Ziggy Marley

Politics ruins the character.

Otto von Bismarck