I quote others only in order to better express myself.

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

A.E. Housman

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Julien Smith

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Harvey S. Firestone

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Logan Pearsall Smith

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill

Service a smile. ? It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. ? It's these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.

Proverb

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Robert Jay Lifton

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Bruce Springsteen

That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me -- actually more exciting -- than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven.

Sherwin B. Nuland

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb