Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

J. Martin Kohe

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

Christian Lous Lange

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Plautus

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

Dr. Richard Selzer

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Louis Aragon

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Jean Baudrillard

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

Jaron Lanier

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Flannery O'Connor

I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.

Nicole Richie

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.

Rodney Dangerfield