Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Anne M. Mulcahy

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Laurence Sterne

As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

David Herbert Lawrence

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Billie Holiday

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

Michael Badnarik

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Baruch Spinoza

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Stephen King

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Margaret Fuller

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

Shimon Peres