The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Billy Connolly

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.

George Alexiou

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October;But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow,Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

John Fletcher, The Bloody Brothe

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

James Cash Penney

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Herbert Marcuse

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

Darrell Hammond

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

David Baldacci

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.

Neil Gaiman

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

H. L. Mencken

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb