I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead

What you are or where you came from is not important. It is who you are and the choices you make, that determine who you will become. If you can look inward and be satisfied, the opinions of others should melt away.

J.D. Stroube

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.

Brandon Mull

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Samuel Johnson

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

Wanda Sykes

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

James Branch Cabell

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

Evander Holyfield

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Henry Miller

Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible

Luthfy Es-Haq

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Leon Trotsky

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

John Perry Barlow