“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex”
Gore Vidal
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him”
“Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control”
“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
John Wooden
“No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation”
Daniel Webster
“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”