I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Ravi Shankar

America is a willingness of the heart.

Source Unknown

It is necessary to have watchers at hand who will bear witness to the values of Tradition in ever more uncompromising and firm ways, as the anti-traditional forces grow in strength. Even though these values cannot be achieved, it does not mean that they amount to mere ideas. These are MEASURES. Let people of our time talk about these things with condescension as if they were anachronistic and anti-historical; we know that this is an alibi for their defeat. Let us leave modern men to their truths and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.

Julius Evola

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

Mitt Romney

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Isabelle Adjani

I believe that you’re great, that there’s something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, this something that is within you, this power within you that’s greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you, it will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence. If you let it! Now that is what I know, for sure.

Michael Bernard Beckwith

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

Blaise Pascal

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

Brittany Snow

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.~Amber

Robin Hobb