The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

Gilbert Murray

Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.

Robinson Jeffers

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

Daniel Goleman

Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

Friedrich von Schiller

Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

Leo Tolstoy

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

Robert De Niro

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Allen Klein

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Joel A. Barker

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Charles Dickens