He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

Applause waits on success.

Benjamin Franklin

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

Colin Quinn

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Alexander Blok

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Albert Einstein

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Benjamin Franklin

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Charles Darwin

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

William Butler Yeats

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Samuel Rutherford

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Karl Von Clausewitz

An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Sholem Asch

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

Jim Hightower

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

Thomas A. Edison