Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Carroll Shelby

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Arthur Scargill

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Hugh Prather

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Virginia Woolf

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Orson Welles

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

Jesse Ventura

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Jean Francois Lyotard

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Charles Lindbergh

Love without attachment is light.

Norman O. Brown