We believe whatever we want to believe.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Whatever your passion, make sure you hold unto a philosophy that is bigger and greater than you.

Life isn't about finding the answers, life is about knowing there are always more questions.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.

Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.

I don't particularly like the word average because when it comes down to it there is no average in people. Everybody has their own streak of uniqueness within them.

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.