Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Dr. Seuss

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

George Saunders

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

John Sununu

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Joseph Conrad

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.

Jessica Szohr

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Napoleon Hill

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll findA thousand regions in your mindYet undiscovered. Travel them, and beExpert in home-cosmography.quoted by Thoreau in Walden Conclusion

William Habbington, from To My H