There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dori

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling

A person is his own worst enemy.

Source Unknown

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Rudolf Otto

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Henry David Thoreau

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Paulo Coelho

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Lenny Bruce

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

George Carlin

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

Meg Cabot

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil

Mahatma Gandhi