Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

William James

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Mario Vargas Llosa

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

Mark Spitz

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

Jean Bodin

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

Robert Charles Wilson

The seven deadly sins: food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering.

A.W. Tozer

It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Terry Pratchett

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Desiderius Erasmus

Success doesn't come to you; you go to it.

T. Scott McLeod