The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.

William Shakespeare

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

Rick Perry

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. C

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

Ted Olson

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

James Madison

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Meister Eckhart

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Morris West

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Susan Sontag

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower