I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Antoine Rivarol

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

George Bernard Shaw

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

George E. Mueller

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Lascelles Abercrombie

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

Tim Scott

Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.

Tai Shang Kan Ying P'Ien

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

P. J. O'Rourke

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Henry Ford

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Robert Anton Wilson

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

Christopher Hitchens