So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Elbert Hubbard

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Tori Amos

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Ogden Nash

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

Ian Hornak, "Cover Magazine", 19

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

Ernest Thompson Seton

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

John Sterling

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Benjamin Franklin

I confess I have the same fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering.

Thomas Jefferson

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Julius Caesar

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

John Dingell

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.

Mao Zedong