War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Prince Philip Edinburgh

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail leading into the unknown to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bread by cities... it is enough that I am surrounded by beauty.

Everett Ruess

He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

Benjamin Franklin

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

Never give up. It's like breathing - once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Joseph Conrad

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Jeb Bush

If youth knew; if age could.

Sigmund Freud

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If humans were inclined to goodness, religion would not be necessary.

Steve Maraboli

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt