Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Ezra Pound

The understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

Michael Ignatieff

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Simone Weil

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Augustine J. Duganne

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

Karl Malone

Your agreement with reality defines your life.

Steve Maraboli

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Lord Chesterfield

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Hunter S. Thompson

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Jonathan Sacks

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Immanuel Kant

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Miles Davis