It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Abu Bakr

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

Christopher Walken

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Franz Grillparzer

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

W. C. Fields

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Bertrand Russell

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Matthew Prior

Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

Ambrose Bierce

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Mother, you have my father much offended.

William Shakespeare

Tis better to have love and lustThan to let our apparatus rust.

Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

Vaclav Havel

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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