My life is a struggle.

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

William Shakespeare

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

Harvey Cushing

Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed so much of Himself; and you will also give Him thanks for not having revealed Himself to haughty sages, unworthy to know so holy a God.

Blaise Pascal

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

Levon Helm

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Alanis Morissette

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

Aung San Suu Kyi

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Thomas Szasz

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Albert Einstein

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Fredrik Bajer