It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Morris L. West

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Abraham Lincoln

Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

Source Unknown

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr.

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

Stephen King

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a tshirt with a bulls eye on the back.

Rodney Dangerfield

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Baltasar Gracian

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

Wilma Mankiller

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Robert Owen