Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

Gracie Allen

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Ang Lee

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

Chevy Chase

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

Thom Yorke

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

John Jay Chapman

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

Lope de Vega

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are made in America.

Helen Rowland

Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.

John Green

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

James Brown

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

William James