The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

If Unix is so damned useful, why is "no" in /usr/dict/words, but "yes" isn't?

In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Only on recognising the true, may we lay down our task of searching further for truth; and only on being satisfied that we have found the holy, are we justified in submitting to its guidance. The duty of following truth at all hazards is not altered, and it is only a false wisdom and prudence which shuns the search. The one chief reason why so much more may be revealed to babes than to the wise and prudent is still simply that, with less calculation and prejudice, they entirely abandon themselves to the leading of truth.

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum, you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West.

A winner says, "There must be a better way to do it".A loser says, "This is the way it has always been done here".

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. .

I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. -Francois.