What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Lord Chesterfield

In times of peace the people look most to their representatives; but in war, to the executive solely

Thomas Jefferson

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you've worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

This act of mine may mean years of separation from your family, so you must decide quickly whether you will go north or remain here.

David G. Farragut, Said to his w

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Luigi Pirandello

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Bob Barr

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

Mary Garden

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

John R. Miller

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

George Barzan

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Aristotle