Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. – Benjamin Disraeli
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. – Niccolo Machiavelli
I had an art teacher whos the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. Thats where she had gone and kept raving over their art department. – Sela Ward
