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“I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!”
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“Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.”
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“In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.”
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“I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.”
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“If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.”
Source : Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.414, JHU Press
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“It's liberty or death! It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!”
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“When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.”
Source : Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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“He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.”
