Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Diane Lane

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Albert Camus

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Elizabeth Moon

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

William Shakespeare

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

H. L. Mencken

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

Senator Jesse Helms

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Buddha

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

Amy Tan

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Albert Camus