Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Charles Keating

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Jack Kemp

The disinterested love of truth which culture fosters is akin to the unselfishness which is a characteristic of the good.

John Lancaster Spalding

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ambrose Bierce

This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

Blaise Pascal

...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been.

Jane Austen

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Ken Olsen

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Paul Simon

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Martin Mull

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong