The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Abdul Kalam

Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immediately recognizes and is drawn to the face of God.

Margaret Brownley, Grieving God'

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Bobby Orr

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

John Updike

The future will either be green or not at all.

Bob Brown

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

Marilyn Manson

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Oprah Winfrey

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

David Brainerd

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Mignon McLaughlin