Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (cha

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

Victor Hugo

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Ray Comfort

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Helmut Schmidt

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

Ray Bradbury

It is a political axiom that power follows property.

Aldous Huxley

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding

Samuel Johnson

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

David Herbert Lawrence

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or christian; from black or white; from the dey of Algiers or the bey of Tunis; from the devil himself, if he wore a crown, we should receive a minister.

Henry Clay

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

Arizona Muse

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

John Mayer