We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

Victor Hugo

Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.

Basil King, Conquest Of Fear (19

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Saint Augustine

Less is more.see Browning

Mies Van der Rohe, attributed, "

The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it.

Danish proverb

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Napoleon Hill

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

John Lancaster Spalding

A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

Jenna Bush