The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we become to the universe around us.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

John Byng

Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

John Neil

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

Anna Godbersen

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

Harry S Truman

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

William Shakespeare

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Thomas Carlyle

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Howard Gardner

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.arguing for the abolition of welfare

Charles Alan Murray, Losing Grou

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Poverty is what I'm writing about.

George Orwell