It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

Albert Pike

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

Sharron Angle

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

John Green

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Thomas B. Macaulay

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

Italian Proverb

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Robin S. Sharma

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

David Duke

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

Jack LaLanne

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Dan Simmons

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Ben Barnes

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.

Edmund Burke