I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Sir John Robert Seeley

The incorporation of a bank and the powers assumed have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated.

Thomas Jefferson

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Denzel Washington

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

William Ralph Inge

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

William S. Burroughs

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

Anne Lamott

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Viggo Mortensen

In time of war the laws are silent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.

English Proverb

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Desiderius Erasmus