Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Edward Rickenbacker

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.

Proverb

People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.

Subhan Zein

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Walter Bagehot

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

Jonathan Swift

What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle.

Kenny D. Eichenberg

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

Haley Barbour

But no language is perfect, no vocabulary is adequate to the wealth of the given universe, no pattern of words and sentences, however rich, however subtle, can do justice to the interconnected Gestalts with which experience presents us. Consequently the phenomenal forms of our name-conditioned universe are by nature delusory and fallacious. Wisdom comes only to those who have learned how to talk and read and write without taking language more seriously than it deserves. As the only begotten of civilization and even of our humanity, language must be taken very seriously. Seriously, too, as an instrument (when used with due caution) for thinking about the relationships between phenomena. But it must never be taken seriously when it is used, as in the old creedal religions and their modern political counterparts, as being in any way the equivalents of immediate experience or as being a source of true knowledge about the nature of things.

Aldous Huxley

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Paul Wellstone

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

Alexander McCall Smith

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.

Shirley Williams