The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.

Orson Scott Card

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Frank Zappa

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Aeschylus

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Chinese Proverb

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Ralph Ellison

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

Les Dawson

Love to me is a feeling, to have universal love you have to always feel love no matter what.

James Dye

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

Sandra Day O'Connor

We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Study the past if you would divine the future.

Confucius

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

Brock Yates

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell