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

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics and Work and Recreation

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in War and Peace

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein, in Vice and Virtue

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Frederick the Great, in Law and Politics

The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon, in Success and Failure

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur, in Success and Failure

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

Even thinking is participation.

Lassi Kämäri, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln, in Law and Politics

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure