It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

Josh Billings

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Ani DiFranco

Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

Source Unknown

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Marguerite Duras

If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!

Bill Gaede

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

Ronald Reagan

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Dean Kamen

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Source Unknown

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

Elisha Cuthbert

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

Zoe Kravitz

The Buck Stops Here

Harry S Truman

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson