It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

Mary Kay Blakely

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

Huangbo Xiyun

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Jean de la Bruyere

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

J.K. Rowling

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Clifford D. Simak

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

Mitch Daniels

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

Mitt Romney

Another distinguished critic has agreed with Gide--that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her niece of being illogical. For some time she could not be brought to understand what logic was, and when she grasped its true nature she was not so much angry as contemptuous. 'Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!' she exclaimed. 'How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?' Her nieces, educated young women, thought that she was pass

E. M. Forster, Aspects of the No

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

Jonathan Sacks

Always do more than is required of you.

General George Patton

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Samuel Johnson

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Victor Frankl