Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

William S. Burroughs

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

Charles Baudelaire

A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet--a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

Frederick William Robertson

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

Mahatma Gandhi

In time of war the laws are silent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Francois Fenelon

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

Alan Alda

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.Our government's got a war on drugs....But get this: The two most widely abused and addictive and destructive of all substances are both perfectly legal.One, of course, is ethyl alcohol. And President George W. Bush, no less, and by his own admission, was smashed, or tiddley-poo, or four sheets to the wind a good deal of time from when he was sixteen until he was forty. When he was forty-one, he says, Jesus appeared to him and made him knock off the sauce, stop gargling nose paint.Other drunks have seen pink elephants.

Kurt Vonnegut

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Cat Stevens

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Albert Einstein