I love competing.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Jean Genet

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Jonathan Sacks

He speaketh not; and yet there liesA conversation in his eyes.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

Virgil

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Will Rogers

We both grew so used to each other, so comfortable with the naturalness and ease of our friendship, that we became sloppy about keeping our relationship a secret. It was not that we were physically demonstrative or obviously in love, more that it had become impossible for us to hide our close involvement. We had gradually acquired the unmistakable air of old-love: finishing each other's sentences and speaking to each other with an offhand, presuming intimacy that was eventually noticed.

Kate Kerrigan

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Epictetus

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Blaise Pascal

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.

Steven Wright

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Mark Twain

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Samuel Butler