"The world suffers a lot, not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people" - Napoleon

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves." - Matthew 7:15

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..." - Carl Sagan

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for" - Epicurus

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence" - George Washington