Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Michael J. Gelb

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Thales of Miletus

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Abraham Harold Maslow

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

Aneurin Bevan

What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.

George Bernard Shaw

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

Colleen Wilcox

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

Lindsey Graham

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

George Eliot

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Orison Swett Marden

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow