Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
―Ghandi

"Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side."
―Gandhi

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

"Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp"-Tom Clancy wsj;p.d4 1/10/14

Here's a seventeenth century one:

"Falmouth was there, I know not to what act
(Some say 'twas to grow Duke too by contact).
An untaught Bullet in it's wanton Scope
Quashes him all to pieces, and his Hope
Such as his Rise such was his Fall, unprais'd:
A Chance shot sooner took than Chance him rais'd:
His Shattered Head the fearless Duke distains
And gave the last first proof that he had Brains"

The satirist Andrew Marvell on the death of the Earl of Falmouth aboard the Duke of York's flagship at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665.

Mike.:salute:

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

Ron White

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
―Gandhi

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams

"Nonviolence is not a weapon for the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest."
―Gandhi

If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people.
Karel Capek

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

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From an old Naval Intelligence Officer.....one whom I should have listened to much more than I did.....(Not sure he really owned it, but he lived it..)

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER......

My Dad....... Capt USN (ret) NIS, DIA, FICEUR,

“I had rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else.”

Oliver Cromwell.

"There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations."
―Gandhi

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Herbie Hancock

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Winston Churchill

“...you have been sat to long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of god, go!.”

Cromwell addressing the Rump Parliament, April 1653.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly