Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Tim Heidecker

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

Source Unknown

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Jean de la Bruyere

When the moral sense is wanting, we endeavor to supply the defect by education, by appeals to reason and calculation, by presenting to the being so unhappily conformed, other motives to do good and to eschew evil, such as the love, or the hatred, or the rejection of those among whom he lives, and whose society is necessary to his happiness and even existence; demonstrations by sound calculation that honesty promotes interest in the long run; the rewards and penalties established by the laws; and ultimately the prospects of a future state of retribution for the evil as well as the good done while here. These are the correctives which are supplied by education, and which exercise the functions of the moralist, the preacher, and legislator; and they lead into a course of correct action all those whose depravity is not too profound to be eradicated.

Thomas Jefferson, to Thomas Law,

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

Kelly Lynch

He who defends everything defends nothing.

Frederick the Great

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Ayn Rand

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

Don Alan Pennebaker

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Johann von Goethe

No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don't amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that's how you get even with these boys.

Orson Scott Card

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Booker T. Washington