"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone."

Foster, Robert D. on Prayer
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on Insanity
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"The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Motivation
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"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."

Borman, Frank on Capitalism
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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on Human Nature
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on Human Nature
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"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."

France, Anatole on Human Nature
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"Religion is in the heart, not in the knees."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Prayer
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"There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter."

Adams, Franklin P. on Inflation
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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Adams, Abigail on Words
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"We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer."

Adair, Gilbert on Cancer
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Lincoln, Abraham on Voting
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"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

Acton, Lord on Satisfaction
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"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."

Acton, Lord on Procrastination
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on Change
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"Only my condemnation injures me."

A Course In Miracles on Control
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"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."

Abbagnano, Nicola on Reason
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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Abbey, Edward on Growth
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Abbey, Edward on Patriotism
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

Abbey, Edward on Society
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

Abbey, Edward on Atheism
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"Patience is passion tamed."

Abbott, Lyman on Patience
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on Power
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."

Acton, Lord on Opinions
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Acton, Lord on Power
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"I am never upset for the reason I think."

A Course In Miracles on Reason
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