Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

What greater gift than the love of a cat?

Charles Dickens

I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!

A.A. Bell

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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George Orwell, from the essay Th

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Thomas Carlyle, History of the F

When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages.

Stephen Richards

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

Susan Orlean

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

Ivan Pavlov

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Albert Camus

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

Stephen King

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Liv Tyler

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Mark Steyn