I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

George Santayana

To me, the most important thing is happiness.

Sheryl Swoopes

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Respect the burden.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.

John Kuypers

Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

Thomas Carlyle

The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards unity...

Abdu'l-Baha

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Jane Austen

First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.

General Iberico Saint Jean

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Sir Peter Medawar

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Jean Paul

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Simone Weil