being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that no one would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

George Orwell

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.

Jim Broadbent

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

William Wordsworth

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

Roger Stone

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

Pat Riley

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Jean de La Fontaine

Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze.

James Joseph Sylvester

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Albert Camus

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

Larry Craig

One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Lord Chesterfield

The God we've been praying to is deaf to our words and only responds to our actions.

Steve Maraboli