Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure

Samuel Johnson

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.

William Proxmire, In NY Herald T

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Frederic Chopin

Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.

Gary Ryan Blair

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

Jason Aldean

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Alva Edison

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

Walter Bagehot

The breathing of the air, The song of the sweet nightingale, The grove and its beauty In the serene night, With the flame that consumes, and gives no pains. ~ 39

John of the Cross

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling