Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

Walter Bagehot

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

Reggie Crist

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

Margaret Walker

Something else has happened with computers.

Seth Lloyd

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Blaise Pascal

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

Eli Khamarov

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

Robert Teeter