Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

General Douglas MacArthur, In hi

A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Yiddish Proverb

Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.

Steve Maraboli

Speak of the Devil and he appears.

Italian Proverb

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Harold Rosenberg

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

David Trimble

He had always prided himself on his ability to bargain, to bluff, to contain his ever-aching heart within the folds of his robes where no one could see his pain and his shame. Unconsciously, he reached up and fisted the little black pearl in his fingers, searching for words, praying to the Almighty for the words that would let him have her. But they would not come.They were not needed, when the truth was in his eyes.

V.S. Carnes

Pain is only what you allow it to be

Cassandra Clare

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Denis Waitley

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Nina Garcia

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh