Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Sigmund Freud

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Charlie Byrd

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Eminem

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

Ethel Barrymore, "The New York P

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Angela Merkel

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

Nancy Astor

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

James Thurber

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Sc

On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

A.E. Housman

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Carl Gustav Jung

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Sir Winston Churchill