Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Alphonse de Lamartine

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

William Penn

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

Olivia Williams

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. Mathew 7:13-14

Bible

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Henry James

My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare theneighborhood kids I lift it over my head and tell them to getout of my yard or I'll throw it at them.

Steven Wright

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Anzia Yezierska

She hated that little voice inside her head. Like the Seelie Queen, it planted doubts where there shouldn't be doubts, asked questions that had no answer.

Cassandra Clare

Language is wine upon the lips

Virginia Woolf

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

Ted Cruz