War does not decide who is right but who is left.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Thomas Jefferson

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Edward Abbey

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

Oscar Wilde

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

Paul Harvey

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Phil Donahue

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

Banana Yoshimoto

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

Henry Louis Gates

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

George Eliot

I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system.

Aileen Wuornos

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant fundsdemanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

General Douglas MacArthur, A Sol

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

Arthur Laffer

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Ayn Rand