"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." -Aristotle
"The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest" -William Dean Howells
"Respect is love in plain clothes." -Frankie Byrne
"I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. (on why she was fearful of her husband running for president)" -Alma Powell
"Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance." -Lois McMaster Bujold
"A homeless person said, 'I haven't had anything to eat for two days.' I said, 'I wish I had your willpower.'" -Roy Chubby Brown
"Success is a great deodorant." -Elizabeth Taylor
"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good." -C. S. Lewis
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have." -Henri Alban-Fournier
"If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship." -La Rochefoucauld