Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Politics makes strange bed-fellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

Jet Li

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.this is commonly attributed to Abraham Lincoln or Shearson Lehman (American Express) or anon.

Anon.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Jean-Paul Sartre

My angel, his name is Freedom, 
 Choose him to be your king;
 He shall cut pathways east and west.
 And fend you with his wing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

L.M. Montgomery

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Arthur Wellesley

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

Ray Bradbury, From the foreward

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Louis Nizer

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau