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There's no betrayal of trust so great that it can't be solved by a bald rapper on horseback.

--The Onion

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
-- John Rogers

Women have something inside them that is very dangerous to us. Expectations.
-- Mung Daal

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
-- Desiderius Erasmus

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool...but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
-- G.K. Chesterton

For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride, lest his mind should seem to be occupied with things mean and transitory; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
-- Peter Kropotkin

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread."
-- Anatole France

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
--President Theodore Roosevelt, 1918