Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Tony Snow

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Juvenal

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

Helen Rowland

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Barry J. Farber

Your range of available choices -- right now -- is limitless.

Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

Tom Peters

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Samuel Johnson

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

David Bowie

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

Helen P. Blavatsky

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Alanis Morissette

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

V. S. Naipaul