An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Man Ray

Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer

Ambrose Bierce

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Henry Ward Beecher

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

Catherine the Great

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Wallace Stevens

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

George Wald

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

Leona Lewis

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

John Morley

Créer, c'est vivre deux fois.

Albert Camus

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Swami Vivekananda