Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

C.S. Lewis

Freedom is control in your own life.

Willie Nelson

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

Louis C. K.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred North Whitehead

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Bryant H. McGill

I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.

Evan Hunter

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan, "Parade", March 2

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Jonathan Sacks

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Henry David Thoreau

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Sir Richard Steele

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Claude Mermet