I don't have many sad days.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

Henry David Thoreau

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Leigh Steinberg

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Robert A. Heinlein

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Nicholas Lore, The Pathfinder

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Emanuel Celler

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Sir Henry Taylor

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Bono

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Jane Austen

Authority forgets a dying king.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends

Joseph Campbell

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Stanislaw Lec

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Oscar Wilde