The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Epictetus

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

Patty Berg, on her 80th birthday

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Henry Ford

The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.

Cecil J. Sharpe

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Francis Bacon

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Dallas Willard

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Jacqueline Bisset

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Simone Weil

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

Horatio Alger

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

Abraham Lincoln

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson