It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us concentrate our energy.

Denis Waitley

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Josh Billings

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

John O. Brennan

He that's secure is not safe.

Benjamin Franklin

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Milan Kundera

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand

To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

Go away, I'm all right!

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Victor Hugo

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller