When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.

Amy Gatliff

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Sigmund Freud

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world

Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led...

Bergen Evans

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

Murray Bookchin

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

Thomas Carlyle

There's always something fishy about the French.

Noel Coward

Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangement was made between France and Holland, by which their two fleets were to unite at a certain time and place. The Dutch fleet did not appear. Every body began to wonder at it. At length it was suspected that the stadtholder was at the bottom of the matter. This suspicion prevailed more and more. Yet, as he could not be impeached, and no regular examination took place, he remained in his office; and strengthening his own party, as the party opposed to him became formidable, he gave birth to the most violent animosities and contentions. Had he been impeachable, a regular and peaceful inquiry would have taken place, and he would, if guilty, have been duly punished,if innocent, restored to the confidence of the public.

Benjamin Franklin

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Victor Hugo

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb