Brian Nidever

“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions