Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers... of all men to the extent that they know.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Norodom Sihamoni

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

English Proverb

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

Gerald R. Ford

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

William James

He inherited from his mother's stories the fundamental style he used, unaltered, in his own stories: namely, the assumption that fact may not be truth, and truth may not be factual.

Haruki Murakami

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

Hitopadesa

Smartass Disciple: What were said for things before the time exist?Master of Stupidity: No words to be said by no man at no time at all.

Toba Beta

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity -- their links with their dead and the unborn.

John Berger

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

Robert Townsend