It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

Thorstein Veblen

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without the time, the world is only a static material; without the sense, the world is only a dead living system

Aditia Rinaldi

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

Mahatma Gandhi

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Mel Brooks

Perhaps I had better tell you the truth, Mr. Gresham. Oh, certainly, said the Prime Minister, who knew very well that on such occasions nothing could be worse than the telling of disagreeable truths.

Anthony Trollope

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

Julianna Margulies

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

Rick Warren