When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

Albert Camus

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Denis Waitley

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Denzel Washington

A good beginning makes a good end.

English Proverb

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Andrew Bird

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

Gwen Stefani

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Sholem Asch

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Buddha

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Friedrich A. Hayek

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

Jackie Cooper