Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Sophocles

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

John Galsworthy

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

LeBron James

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old no

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

Everything done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever;Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!Who knoweth it exhaustless, self-sustained,Immortal, indestructible,shall suchSay, I have killed a man, or caused to kill?Nay, but as when one layethHis worn-out robes away,And, taking new ones, sayeth,These will I wear to-day!So putteth by the spiritLightly its garb of flesh,And passeth to inheritA residence afresh.

Bhagavad Gita

Rereading this novel today, replaying the moves of its plot, I feel rather like Anderssen fondly recalling his sacrifice of both Rooks to the unfortunate and noble Kieseritsky

Vladimir Nabokov, The Defense fo

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Alan Autry

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

John Foster Dulles