There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Howard Zinn

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda

If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.

Brett Hoebel

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Jeremy Taylor

When people give you their money they tell you the truth.

Jason Fried

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

James Truslow Adams

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service.

Ronald Reagan

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

George Washington

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

William Shakespeare

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Ernest Hemingway

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers