He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got thewires backwards. I erased all of the records. When I returnedthem to my friend, he said, Hey, these records are all blank.

Steven Wright

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Joseph Priestley

The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Kenneth Kaunda

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Danica McKellar

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Naguib Mahfouz

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

Seann William Scott

Strategy is a route to achieving your objectives.

Simon Ramo

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Laurence Sterne

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Mary Webb

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

Calvin Coolidge