If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

William Lloyd Garrison

I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.

Jacob Bronowski, Science and Hum

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

William Bell Riley

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Calvin Coolidge

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Neil Sheehan

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

Randy Neugebauer

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Ben Kingsley

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Robert M. Hutchins

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Konrad Adenauer