If you do not wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about it, for the more men talk the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas Carlyle
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
Dalai Lama
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Erich Fromm
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney
So when these people sell out even though they get fabulously rich they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
Steve Jobs
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Alan Watts
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Michel de Montaigne
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden
