Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim.

American Indian Proverb, Navajo

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Louis D. Brandeis

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Lord Chesterfield

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

G. K. Chesterton

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Liam Neeson

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Shimon Peres

Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.

Robin S. Sharma

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Earl Nightingale

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Sparky Anderson

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

Brad Renfro

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Nicholas Boileau

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Jodi Picoult