Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Footfalls echo in the memoryDown the passage which we did not takeTowards the door we never openedInto the rose-garden.My words echoThus, in your mind.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, "Four

A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Ambrose Bierce

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

Lauryn Hill

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Francis of Assisi

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Percy Wynham Lewis

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?

Andre Dubus

Political courage is not political suicide.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Anton Chekhov

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Mason Cooley

It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.

Wiley Cash