Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau
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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. – George S. Patton
As soon as someone tells me: Youre rather sexy, I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: You were voted the worlds sexiest man, I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? Thank you is the best you can do. George Clooney is the worlds sexiest man, anyway. – Daniel Craig
The middle class is so funny, its the class I know best, and its the class where you find the most pretension, so thats what makes the middle classes so funny. – J. K. Rowling
Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. – Charles Horton Cooley