No one escapes from life alive.

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

Bill Owens

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Daniel Boone

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Frank Lloyd Wright

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else

Thomas Jefferson

I've had the highest mountains. I've had the deepest rivers, you can have it all, but now, keep moving.

Imagine Dragons

I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34

Bible

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

Alfred North Whitehead, Science

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

David D. Burns

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

Mario Batali

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Simone Weil