About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private. I have urged Congressexcept when the Nations security is at staketo take action to that end.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Aeschylus

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

Michael Phelps

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

John Stuart Mill

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Paula Abdul

Gaining control of your thoughts is as easy as sitting by the ocean and controlling the waves.

Michael Lipsey

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Benjamin Carson

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Brian Eno

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

Rush Limbaugh