I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

William Hazlitt

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Francis Parker Yockey

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Abdoulaye Wade

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Miriam Makeba

Men must know their limitations.

Clint Eastwood

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Milos Forman

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Henry Knox

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

Rita Williams-Garcia

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

Bill Keller

Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.

Claude Nicollier

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley, Life and