Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

George Michael

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastiat

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

Charles Frazier

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Mahatma Gandhi

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Jane Harrison

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

George Eliot

I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.

Seann William Scott

As for Doing-good,that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agreewith my constitution. Probably I should not consciously and deliberatelyforsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands ofme, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a likebut infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preservesit.

Henry David Thoreau

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

Jim Lehrer

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

Janet Evanovich