I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

You came to me like a dream, you held me in reality and will leave me gasping for your loving breath when you are gone....

Fighting men are the city's fortress.

Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal: My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.

O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island!

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.

Nothing seems impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.