A great fortune is a great slavery.

For surely in the blind deep-buried roots Of all men's souls to-day A secret quiver shoots.

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

People will believe most anything that is whispered to another.

Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state.

Then I cast loose my buff coat, each halter let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise bad or good, 'Til at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -Kahlil Gibran.

That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month-- Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman-- A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she-- O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.

I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

la via esta duro, amigo.

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Oh Ronald McDonald when you smile each of your teeth gravestones stands for billions and billions of lives.