I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

Arthur R. Marshall

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

Virginia Woolf

Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence.

Brian O'Shaugnessy

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

Susan Orlean

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

Terry Eagleton

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

Thomas Malthus

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Mark Caine

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Soren Kierkegaard

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Paul J. Meyer

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Aneurin Bevan