The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection Are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

Paulo Coelho

Each of us has a natural right -- from God to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?

Fr

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Elizabeth Gilbert

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests

Gore Vidal

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

Sri Ramakrishna

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Samuel Johnson

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

Gillian Anderson

A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street, and...........ooooohhhhhh, that's much better...

Steven Wright

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

Pat Riley

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

Plato

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Mark Twain

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi