"You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much."

“I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.”

“Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.”

“Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.”

“The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth.”

Source : Rolf Jacobsen, Roger Greenwald (2002). “North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, A Bilingual Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

“Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.”

“I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?”

“If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.”

“If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.”

Source : Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (2004). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History”, p.26, Regnery Publishing