One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
-William Shakespeare
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
-Antonio Porchia
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
-Plato