Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?

Jane Austen

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.

Cameron Dokey

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional Spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.

George Washington

I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

Italo Calvino

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

John Perry Barlow

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

Allen Ginsberg

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

Kevin Kelly

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.

Arthur Koestler