Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Noam Chomsky

But Portugal had broken the mainspring for me, because it had caused me to understand that I thought democracy and pluralism were good things in themselves, and ends in themselves at that, rather than means to another end.

Christopher Hitchens

Life flows on within you and without you.

George Harrison

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Paul Simon

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann von Goethe

Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Ivan F. Boesky

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Jeff Valdez

EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Rev. John Wellesly

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Norman Mailer