To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first then you are a parasite, if the second then you are an oasis in the desert.
Kahlil Gibran
The search for truth is in one way hard, and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
Aristotle
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya Angelou
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
