It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956) The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Charles de Gaulle
French general & politician (1890 - 1970) Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice"
US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977) I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657
French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) It is better to be looked over than overlooked. Mae West
US movie actress (1892 - 1980) There is no substitute for victory. Douglas McArthur, Farwell Speech to Joint Session of US Congress, 1952 No man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author (1850 - 1894) It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book) | 
