I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

Saint John of the Cross

I think it would be a good idea. ( In response to a question : What do you think of Western civilization? )

Mahatma Gandhi

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Criss Jami

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures; no restoratives Like to a constant woman!

John Ford

This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

Charles Montesquieu

Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits. It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind.

Edmund Burke

Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.'

C.S. Lewis

The great corrupter of public man is the ego....Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Dean Acheson, from a speech to t

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

Anton Chekhov

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

Oscar Wilde

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

Aldous Huxley

Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.

Gerhard Kocher