An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there and no chain of reasoning no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Second we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend every parent should have a choice and every child should have a chance.
Mitt Romney
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving, we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Lead follow or get out of the way.
Laurence J. Peter
Immortality is a long shot I admit. But somebody has to be first.
Bill Cosby
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine
A state arises as I conceive out of the needs of mankind, no one is self-sufficing but all of us have many wants.
Plato
