Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses

Love is the fulfilling of the Law.

Bible

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Douglas MacArthur

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

Will Rogers

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

Bobby Sands

February 13, 1951. No! I cannot claim that with the end of this notebook, of the notebook, all will be settled, that all will have been done. Perhaps I will have the desire to add to this again. To add something. To add. Perhaps. To add to this again at the last momenthttp://www.adpf.asso.fr/adpf-publi/folio/textes/gide_ang.rtf

Andre Gide, the source for this

Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.

Robert Bridges

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Albert Camus

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

George Eliot

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Robert W. Service

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Confucius