Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Edith Wharton

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Gracie Allen

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Abbie Hoffman

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Vladimir Nabokov

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Paul Getty

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Friedrich Schiller

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Laura Bush

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god -- Society, The State, The Government, The Commune -- must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

Rose Wilder Lane

If you have it Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

James Barrie

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Elizabeth Kenny