Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

G. W. F. Hegel

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

Damian Lewis

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Ambrose Bierce

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

Brooke Burns

There are few human emotions as warm, comforting, and enveloping as self-pity. And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. There is only one answer; turn away from it and move on.

Dr Megan Reik

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party

Oscar Wilde

Cold If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death

Mark Twain

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

Hamilton Jordan

The nail that stands out will be hammered down.

Japanese Proverb

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Edvard Munch