Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Charles Horton Cooley, Life and

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.

Jerome P. Fleishman

None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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Ah, how skilful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!published in The Seaside and the Fireside

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

John Polanyi

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

Youssou N'Dour

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Aristotle

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

The good old times -- all times when old are good.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Neil Young