Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Walter Scott

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Youssou N'Dour

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

Geoffrey Fisher

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

William J. Harris

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Don Marquis

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy

William Shakespeare

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Kent Nerburn

Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.

George Darley

We cannot meet it the threat of dictatorship if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of totalitarianism, where every mans hand is out for pabulum and virile creativeness has given place to the patronizing favor of swollen bureaucracy.

Vannevar Bush