Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

Pat Robertson

Before big bridges, deep tunnels and the advent of health and safety regulations, there were many ways to cross rivers. They would use rowing boats, rickety rafts or in the absence of a vessel, swim or wade. Everyone knew what a stepping-stone was. They all understood that it was not something that you would want to stand on for any length of time. It was a means to an end, an important point and a route from A to B.

Johnathan Cainer

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Shia LaBeouf

If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live

Leo Tolstoy

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Paul Auster

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

Imelda Staunton

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

In some countries a power exists which, though it is in a degree foreign to the social body, directs it, and forces it to pursue a certain track. In others the ruling force is divided, being partly within and partly without the ranks of the people. But nothing of the kind is to be seen in the United States; there society governs itself for itself. All power centers in its bosom, and scarcely an individual is to be met with who would venture to conceive or, still less, to express the idea of seeking it elsewhere. The nation participates in the making of its laws by the choice of its legislators, and in the execution of them by the choice of the agents of the executive government; it may almost be said to govern itself, so feeble and so restricted is the share left to the administration, so little . do the authorities forget their popular origin and the power from which they emanate. The people reign in the American political world as the Deity does in the universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes from them, and everything is absorbed in them.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Charles Darwin

Panic, fear, worry, doubt, negativity ... words not recognized by Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Chuck Colson