At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Martha Beck

I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

William Butler Yeats

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

Sebastian Junger

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Johann von Goethe

The history of a people is found in its songs.

George Jellinek

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.

William Blake

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Chuck Palahniuk

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24

Bible

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Alice Walker

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Mark Twain