Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. (Announcing blockade of Cuba) (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Years and sins are always more than owned. (Italian Proverb)
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. (John Cheever)
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. (Mencius)
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Leonardo DaVinci)
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. (Carl Gustav Jung)
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. (Adolf Hitler)
Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow. (Danish proverb)
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight. (Roger Rosenblatt)
England expects that every man will do his duty. (Lord Nelson)
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. (Oprah Winfrey)
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. (Stanislaw Lem)
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. (Jerry Garcia)
Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems (Abraham Lincoln)
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world. (Albert Camus)
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil. (Marcus Aelius Aurelius)
Materialists and madmen never have doubts. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables 'Do not try.' (Dan Parker)