"Common sense is not so common...." - Quote by Voltaire

“If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.”

“Friends should be preferred to kings.”

“We only half live when we only half think.”

“No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.”

“Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.”

“Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.”

“Life should be touched, not strangled.”

“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.”

“There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”