My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart -- and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!

What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.

Rick Scott

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

John Tillotson

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Deepak Chopra

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.

Source Unknown

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the

My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.

General Robert E. Lee, letter to

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Erich Fromm

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.

Ralph Merkle

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Kahlil Gibran