The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Ben Johnston

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Blaise Pascal

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Lou Holtz

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Abraham Lincoln

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

Stephen Covey

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Joanne Harris

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.

Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Proverb

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Huang Po

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.

Christopher Hitchens