To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

Keith Emerson

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Proverb

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Jonathan Miller

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Francis Bacon

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

Katherine Harris

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

Billy Sunday

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.

Alvin Toffler, Future Shock Intr

After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school.

Kin Hubbard

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Aphra Behn

The empowered mind allows problems to seed personal growth.

Steve Maraboli