You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts holdby voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

William Allen White

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Raymond Hitchcock

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Honore de Balzac

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Bertrand Russell

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Lawrence Durrell

A word to the wise is enough

Benjamin Franklin

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Joe E. Lewis

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Francis Bacon

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw

Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

James Baldwin