A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest

Samuel Johnson

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Gertrude Stein

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Francis Ford Coppola

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

James Collins

A functioning police state needs no police.

William S. Burroughs

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

Terence Stamp

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Eric Hoffer

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

Eliot Spitzer

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

Mary Oliver

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

Lajos Kossuth

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Ann Bancroft