It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

George Saunders

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Joseph Cook

The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.

Leonardo da Vinci

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

Thomas Carlyle

You can't lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse.

John Peers

HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

Alfred Tennyson

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Thomas a Kempis

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Theodore White

One must not be afraid of new ideas, no matter the source. And we must never fear the truth, even when it pains us.

Al-Kindi

My feelings for Drew couldn't just disappear. They were ingrained within every fiber of my being, and I needed them just the same as I needed air to breathe.

Michelle Madow

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin