Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate Unless we dare The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the resistless day, And count it fair.

Amelia Earhart

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

Oscar Wilde

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

Black Elk

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

Paulo Coelho

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Ludovico Ariosto

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

Ambrose Bierce

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

Thomas Stephen Szasz

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Oscar Wilde

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

Carter G. Woodson

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Sir Robin Day