The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is as wrong for one person to rule many as for many to rule one.

Leo Tolstoy

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

Lyn Nofziger

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Brigitte Bardot

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Luther Burbank

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Lester Bangs

All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger comprehension of the nature of life takes its place.

David R. Hawkins

Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

Alexander Smith

Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

E. V. Cooke

Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep

William Shakespeare

And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.

Demetri Martin

Lady Jane Gray, who tho' inferior to her lovely Cousin the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman

Jane Austen