Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.

Oscar Wilde

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

Prem Rawat

I am the government.

Andrew Cuomo

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Pearl Buck

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Lil Wayne

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

Nigel Kennedy

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

Juliet Marillier

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason; and if any thing is to be hoped, every thing ought to be tried.

James Madison

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

John Maynard Keynes

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

Allen Klein