Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Norman Mailer, Armies of the Nig

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.

Anon.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Abraham Lincoln

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

Virgil

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Emo Philips

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Samuel Butler

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

James Dyson

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

Jimmy Wales

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

Mitt Romney

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Arbie M. Dale