They were all famous and fantastic fellows.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

Ward Becker

It's not always what we don't know that gets in our way; sometimes it's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Steve Maraboli

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

Karl Rove

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Bishop Robert South

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

Thomas Traherne

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Danc

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Thomas A. Bennett

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

John Steinbeck

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Simon Travaglia

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Golda Meir