As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig von Mises

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Kimon Nicolaides

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

Benjamin Franklin

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

Howard Barker

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Mother Theresa

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.

Raymond Chandler

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Lillian Hellman

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Cyril Connolly

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

George Foreman

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Martin Luther