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It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Wisdom and Ignorance

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

Al Capone, in War and Peace

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Vice and Virtue and Vice and Virtue

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben, in Law and Politics

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Science and Religion

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks, in Altruism and Cynicism

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntington, in Altruism and Cynicism

Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

Lee Hawkins, in Health and Disease

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Rudyard Kipling, in Success and Failure