Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Walter Scott

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Plato

Don't seek love externally, it's fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken thelove that already exists within; it will encompass everyone andeverything in your life; it will permeate your very being.

Danielle Pierre

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Edith Wharton

Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.

Steve Maraboli

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

Scott Walker

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

Paul Lynde

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

Emily Dickinson

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

A. J. Jacobs

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.

Rudyard Kipling

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Michel De SaintPierre