No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Edgar Allan Poe

The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

William Shakespeare

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get.

Howard Fineman

You sing the song in your heart and the people it resonates with are going to dance to it.

Steve Maraboli

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Al Capone

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.

Aliki

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

John Ruskin

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Arthur Erickson

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources -- to do something about them.

Henry Ford