He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. 

--Ben Franklin

There is more to life than increasing its speed. 

--Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. 

--George Dennison Prentice

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

--Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

--Winston Churchill

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

--Theodore H. White

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

--James William Fulbright

Genius is eternal patience. 

--Michelangelo

When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

--Marquis de la Grange

I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

--Thomas Edison, (1847-1931)

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around us.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

--Jorge Luis Borges

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

--Diogenes, (412-323 BCE)

He who has a why can endure any how. 

--Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. 

--Leo Tolstoy

What if there were no hypothetical situations? 

--Andrew Kohlsmith

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop. 

--H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956)

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

-Murray Edelman, professor (1919-2001)

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

--Anonymous

Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure.

--Portuguese Proverb

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first. 

--E. F.  Schumacher

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. 

--John Locke

The way to become boring is to say everything. 

--Voltaire, (1694-1778)