What are some of your favorite sayings?

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"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline

"If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President."
-Václav Havel

"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."
-Václav Havel

"If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up."
- Angelina Jolie (1975 - )

"The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it."
-Václav Havel

"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."
-Václav Havel

"The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now."
- S. G. Tallentyre, referring to Voltaire. Often attributed to Voltaire.

"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
-Václav Havel

"You've got be careful about getting locked into open systems."
- IBM salesman

"Václav Havel is teh 1337."
-Me

"For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. 'If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.'"
-J.W.N. Sullivan

"It's simple. Once the Planet is hurt, it gathers Spirit Energy to heal the injury. The amount of energy gathered depends on the size of the injury... What would happen if there was an injury that threatened the very life of the Planet? Think how much energy would be gathered! And at the center of that injury, will be me. All that boundless energy will be mine. By merging with all the energy of the Planet, I will become a new life form, a new existence. Melding with the Planet... I will cease to exist as I am now... Only to be reborn as a god to rule over every soul."
-Sefirosu

"Hey-hey! Tea! Can I have some too? With lotsa sugar and honey and... oh yeah, don't forget the lard!"
-Palmer

"...it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."
-Douglas Adams

"Now we can cross the shifting sands."

Supposedly L. Frank Baum's dying words. (The shifting sands were the deserts surrounding Oz.)

Hey hey, we're the monkeys!