The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

James A. Garfield

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few went to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.

Henry David Thoreau

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Thomas Aquinas

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.

Gabrielle Union

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

André Gide

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

H. L. Mencken

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Leo Rosten

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Jeff Greenfield

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Thornton Wilder

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Alan Alda

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Steven Tyler