Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Benjamin Franklin

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Franz Kafka

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

Zig Ziglar

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Edward Abbey

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

Rita Mae Brown, Sudden Death ch.

A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Lord Melbourne

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Jim Elliot

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Raoul Vaneigem

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Herman Melville

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

Thomas Jefferson

Private and public life are subject to the same rules; and truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy, or tact, or expediency, or any other word that was ever devised to conceal or mystify a deviation from the straight line.

General Robert E. Lee