Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

Source Unknown

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

William Shakespeare

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Desmond Tutu

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Andre Maurois

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

Ted Danson

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Lady Stella Reading

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Horace Walpole

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

Bryant McGill

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Henri Matisse, Notebooks