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• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have
  it depends on what you think. -- Dale Carnegie...
• If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves.
  Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization....
• A man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies, because if you indulge this passion on some occasions, it will rise of itself in othe
  if you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you....
• We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb
  or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation....
• Let the caveman who does not choose to accept the axiom of identity
  try to present his theory without using the concept of identity or any concept derived from it -- let the anthropoid who does not choose to accept the existence of nouns, try to devise a language without nouns, adjectives, or verbs -- let the witch doctor who does not choose to accept the validity of sensory perception, try to prove it without using the data he obtained by sensory perception -- let the head-hunter who does not choose to accept the validity of logic, try to prove it without logic -- let the pygmy who proclaims that a skyscraper needs no foundation after it reaches its fiftieth story, yank the base from under his building, not yours -- let the cannibal who snarls that the freedom of man's mind was needed to create an industrial civilization, but is not needed to maintain it, be given an arrowhead and a bearskin, not a university chair of economics....
• X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
  X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc....
• Wiggum: All right, Captain Rush-Rush, out of the car!
  [Troy slams the DeLorean's door in his face] Ow, I'm seeing stars here!...
• Because of one paragraph the bank took off of his property, it was clause and effects.
• He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 121...