Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Voltaire
I have surrounded myself with very smart people.
Dolly Parton
Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop traveler and piss.
Lord Byron
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one every moment.
Henry David Thoreau
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy
If the world were perfect it wouldn't be.
Yogi Berra
George is a nice guy no doubt. He's learned that he can be a gentleman and still have a killer instinct. Me I'm the opposite. I'm a jerk who has to work at being a gentleman. I've always loved to put the hurt on people.
Lance Armstrong
Good writing is like a windowpane.
George Orwell
We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
Colin Powell
