Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Source Unknown

My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.

Seth Rogen

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Rudy Giuliani

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure

Samuel Johnson

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Greil Marcus

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Paul Robeson

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

Dylan Moran

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Henry Rollins

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Bruce Lee

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Bernard Cornwell

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

William Cowper