There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Fear less, hope more;Whine less, breathe more;Talk less, say more;Hate less, love more;And all good things are yours.

Swedish Proverb

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Frederick Delius

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

Imre Lakatos

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Antoine Rivarol

When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.

Stephen Richards

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

Emil Zatopek

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Edward Coke

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Muhammad Ali

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Say not, the struggle naught availeth,The labor and the wounds are vain,The enemy faints not, nor faileth,And as things have been, they remain.If hopes are dupes, fears may be liars;It may be, in yon smoke concealedYour comrades chase e'en now the fliersAnd, but for you, possess the field.For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,Seem here no painful inch to gain,Far back, through creeks and inlets making,Comes silent, flooding in, the main.And not by eastern windows only,When daylight comes, comes in the light;In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly,But westward, look, the land is bright.

Arthur H. Clough, The Land is Br

Lessing, the most honest of theoretical men, dared to say that he took greater delight in the quest for truth than in the truth itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche