I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite goodMaybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder. (Jay Leno)
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. (Mark Twain)
The people's good is the highest law. (Cicero)
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. (Pericles)
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. (Bob Marley)
It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
When books are burned in the end people will be burned too. (Heinrich Heine)
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. (Noam Chomsky)
Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation. (Hugh Macleod)
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. (H. L. Mencken)