The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Plato

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

Poul Anderson

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

Thomas Hardy

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Robert Kennedy Jr.

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

Floyd Abrams

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

Mary Lou Retton

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

David Ginola

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Louis XIV

For too much rest becomes a pain.

Homer

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

Chris Daughtry

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Bruce Willis