I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

Rachel Ward

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

James Chanos

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Don Marquis

Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine.

Parker, Dorothy

There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Plato

Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.

Sir Winston Churchill

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Don Marquis

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

D. W. Brogan, on decline of US b

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Theresa

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge