If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Theodore Sturgeon

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects, and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested; and it has not been only once; I have had her hopes and exultations to listen to again and again. I have known myself to be divided from Edward forever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection. Nothing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me. I have had to content against the unkindness of his sister and the insolence of his mother, and have suffered the punishment of an attachment without enjoying its advantages. And all this has been going on at the time when, as you too well know, it has not been my only unhappiness. If you can think me capable of ever feeling, surely you may suppose that I have suffered .

Jane Austen

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

Frank Perdue

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

Bob Verdi

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Matthew Arnold

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Doris Lessing

CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future.

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