Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Dee Hock

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Paul Getty

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Joe Rogan

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Jesus Christ

The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

James M. Baldwin

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.

Thomas Paine

First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

George Bernard Shaw