...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.

Francis Beaumont

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Confucius

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Edward George BulwerLytton

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

Fay Wray

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

Carly Fiorina

The first missionaries, good men imbued with the narrowness of their age, branded us as pagans and devil-worshipers, and demanded of us that we abjure our false gods before bowing the knee at their sacred altar.

Charles Eastman

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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