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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need. If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December. People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented. Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock. Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals. I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. The Republic of Texas is no more. The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics. Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me. The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from. It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts. I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die. We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment. A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. In my mind, I had had enough of baseball.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles

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Anacharsis

Every man is his own chief enemy.

- Anacharsis


Play so that you may be serious.

- Anacharsis


The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

- Anacharsis


Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

- Anacharsis


Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

- Anacharsis


Anacharsis was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken "barbarian," apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.
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