Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike

Plato

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

The first rule of venture capitalism should be Shoot the Inventor.

Sir Richard Storey

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Steve Buscemi

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Dennis Potter

The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

Josiah Stamp

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Arnold Bennett

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Helen Keller

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

Curtis Sliwa

Eagles do not beget Doves.

Anon.

Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has.

Source Unknown

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Eric Butterworth