I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Percival Arland Ussher

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell, Shooting an Eleph

Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.

James Richardson

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

Meister Eckhart

We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

Proverb

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Paul Wellstone

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

John Sununu

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

Carl Schurz

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Edward Rickenbacker