My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.

Chinese Proverb

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Thomas Aquinas

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Morgan Freeman

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

What we need is to use what we have.

Basil S. Walsh

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

Eva Ibbotson

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

Tom Stoppard

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Source Unknown

My mom's been married three times my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

Skeet Ulrich

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

Mel Gibson

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Chief Joseph