One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Dame Mary Gilmore

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what he loves.

Blaise Pascal

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Frank Borman

Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: They get all heated up but don't know what's cooking.

Source Unknown

War was so many things, and not the least of which confusion. What was wrong? What was right, for that matter?Was killing right or wrong? Brave or cowardly? Human nature or unnatural behavior of creatures too smart for their own good?Loyalty, betrayal, hate, love, fear, friendship, teamwork, violence. War was connected to all of these. Hard work, sadness, suffering, discipline, chaos, questions, few answers, strategy, bravery, foolishness, death, life.And both winning and losing were only two small aspects of the word war.

Kenzie Kovacs-Szabo

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Eliza Cook

My faith has strengthen. God has shown me through my son with Down syndrome not take anything for granted. I'm more grateful.

Yvonne Pierre

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Nancy Grace

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

Laurie Frankel

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Richard Milhous Nixon, First Ina

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.

Andre Maurois