O God! what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Thomas Carlyle

If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.

Rollo Armstrong

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Economics is not an exact science.

John Kenneth Galbraith

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Powell Clayton

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

Howard Dean

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Herman Melville

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Andy Rooney

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

Stephen King

No man can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24

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