Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Gloria Swanson

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Samuel Butler

Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool.

Bill Strickland

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

David Korten, When corporations

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Howard Nemerov

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Chinese Proverb

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Thomas Carlyle

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Faye Wattleton

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Ben Shapiro