"A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else."

“Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.60, Library of Alexandria

“Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.”

“The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.”

“We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.”

“To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.”

“We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.”

“The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.”

“It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.”