Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.

Darren Flutie

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Walter Savage Landor

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

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A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

Henry A. Wallace

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'

Charles Dickens

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Julius Boros

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

David Merrick