The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

William Scranton

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

English Proverb

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

John Locke

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Isadora Duncan

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Thomas Aquinas

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

John O. Brennan

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Jose Marti

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Cat Stevens

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Leslie ParrishBach