God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

Malcolm Muggeridge

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

Mildred Mcafee

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Will Rogers

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Cleo Moore

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Edward Walker

Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.

Sorin Cerin

Be an opener of doors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

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On completely popular government: Its superiority in reference to present well-being rests upon two principles, of as universal truth and applicability as any general propositions which can be laid down respecting human affairs. The first is, that the rights and interests of every or any person are only secure from being disregarded, when the person interested is himself able, and habitually disposed, to stand up for them. The second is, that the general prosperity attains a greater height, and is more widely diffused, in proportion to the amount and variety of the personal energies enlisted in promoting it.

John Stuart Mill