I proclaim the inevitable advent of the universal republic. Not the transient backslidings, nor the darkness and the dread, nor the tragic difficulty of uplifting the world everywhere at once will prevent the fulfillment of international truth.

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... Thestudy of milkmen.

Steven Wright

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Will Rogers

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm not sure history has ended.

John Bolton

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

Lesley Gore

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Errol Flynn

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Orson Scott Card

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Arie de Geus

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Ezra Pound

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Ali Smith

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar