If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Boy what a hotel that was, why they stole my towel.

Rodney Dangerfield

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Werner Heisenberg

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

Bernard Mandeville

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Julien Benda

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

Jack LaLanne

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Bertrand Russell

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C.S. Lewis

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

Rich Lowry

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Ruby Wax

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

George Soros