Henry Louis Mencken

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

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John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

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African Proverb

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.

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Anna Pavlova

To follow, without halt, one aim There's the secret of success.

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Dante Alighieri

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

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Unknown

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

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Fred Allen

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

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Tao Le Ching

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

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Michael Pritchard

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Rita Rudner

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

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Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]

I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.

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Zelda

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

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