If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Amanda Cross

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

Brian Tracy

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Aldous Huxley

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

Melanie Griffith

But in the end, we can't live our lives by 'what if' and 'if only'. We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important.

Terry Goodkind

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

Joseph Schumpeter

The most complex things are the simplest.

Agni Celeste

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Albert Camus

My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.

Ronald Reagan

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Doris Lessing

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Kate Millett