Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

Thomas Jefferson -- still surv

John Adams

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

Orson Scott Card

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! As Margo Channing in All About Eve

Bette Davis

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

Forrest Tucker

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

William Bennett

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

Source Unknown

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Ringo Starr

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

Alexander Pope

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

Xenophon

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

Hjalmar Branting

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

Booboo Stewart